Gestational age is just a number
What is 18%
This is the term given to a non-progressive disorder of movement and posture resulting in functional impairment as a result of an injury that occurred early in development.
What is cerebral palsy?
This is the term given to children before the age of 5 who are found to have significant delays in two or more areas of development and may predict later intellectual disability.
What is global developmental delay (GDD)?
This is the framework used in Canada and internationally to describe and organize information on functioning and disability.
What is the international classification of function or ICF?
This is what NDI stands for.
What is neurodevelopmental impairment?
These are two short-term morbidities we may counsel parents around for their infants born at less than 29 weeks and 6 days gestational age.
What are Grade 3/4 IVH, PVL, Stage 2/3 NEC, sepsis, BPD, Stage 3/4/5 ROP?
This is the classification system used to describe function in children with cerebral palsy.
What is GMFCS?
This is a disorder of social communication and restrictive and repetitive behaviours.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
These are two home services that children may be connected with prior to discharge from the hospital.
What are physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietitian, infant development or home care nursing?
This is the name of the registry for the world's smallest surviving babies.
What is the Tiniest Babies Registry?
These are the morbidities that have the highest predictive performance for death or neurodevelopmental impairment in preterm infants.
What are BPD, severe brain injury and severe retinopathy or prematurity?
This is a minor motor disability that is present in the around 5-6% of the general population and is 3 fold higher in those born very preterm.
What is developmental coordination disorder?
These are three risk factors for ASD.
What are an older sibling with ASD, preterm birth, short inter-pregnancy interval, GDM etc?
This is the name of the Children's Treatment Network center in the city of Toronto.
What is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital?
I just called to say that this is the famous celebrity who developed significant retinopathy of prematurity resulting in blindness.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This is the gestational age at which we are legally obligated to provide full resuscitation.
What is there is no legal age of viability in Canada?
These are evidence-based assessments that can and should be performed before 5 months corrected age to predict cerebral palsy.
What are the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE), General Movements Assessment (GMA), MRI and Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP)?
This is the estimated prevalence of intellectual disability in very preterm and extremely preterm children.
What is 16%?
This is the federal tax credit that helps people with impairments, or their supporting family member, reduce the amount of income tax they may have to pay.
What is the Disability Tax Credit?
This was the condition that Patrick Kennedy (John F. Kennedy's child) born at 35 weeks GA had prior to his death.
What is respiratory distress syndrome?
These antenatal interventions have strong evidence in preventing cerebral palsy.
What are antenatal corticosteroids and magnesium sulfate?
What is CIMT (constraint induced movement therapy)?
These are neonatal factors that have been shown to be strongly associated with later intelligence scores.
What are GA, BW, BPD, postnatal corticosteroid use, (IVH), (PVL)?
This is the language support service provided to children before they enter school.
What is the preschool speech and language program? (e.g. in Toronto, Surrey Place)
These were the two parts of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, 2nd edition.
What are MDI (mental developmental index) and PDI (psychomotor developmental index)?