Multidisciplinary Team/Trisomy 21

Question 1

What are the features of the T21?

Answer 1

Distinctive facial features including large tongue
Intellectual disability is common
50% have congenital cardiac problems, including AVSD
Low tone, develop at a different pace (e.g. slow walk)
Feeding issues (narrower airways)
Behavioural issues
Sleep apnoea
Hypothyroidism
Hirschsprungs disease, duodenal atresia
Diabetes, coeliac, cataracts, predisposition to leaukemia, atlanto-axial instability

Low tone is muscles that are floppy or hypotonia.

Question 2

Role of a Speech and Language Therapist?

Answer 2

Speech and language therapy is concerned with the management of disorders of speech, language, communication and swallowing in children and adults.

They give help and support to the family and kids not to FIX it.

Question 3

What is Occupational Therapy?

Answer 3

Occupational Therapy enables people to participate in daily life to improve their health and well being
Person-Environment-Occupation

Question 4

what is the cerebral palsy?

Answer 4

Not a single thing, but an umbrella term
A group of disorders of the development of movement and posture that are attributed to non progressive disturbances in the developing foetal or infant brain.
Often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, cognition, communication, behaviour and seizures

It is a MOTOR problem

Question 5

Cerebral Palsy causes?

Answer 5

Question 6

Features of Cerebral Pulsy?

Answer 6

Question 7

Makaton sign?

Answer 7

Used for Delayed speech used by SLT
Simple version of BSL which gives the chance to see and hear the words

Question 8

Phyiotherpaist helps with Gross Motor. T/F

Answer 8

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Question 9

OT (Occupational therapy) role?

Answer 9