Equipment
This is any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially or off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.
What is assistive technology?
This is difficulty with any stage of swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
This type of attention requires the ability to ignore irrelevant information and focus on the important information.
What is selective attention?
In this model, oculomotor control, visual fields, and visual acuity are at the bottom of the hierarchy.
What is Warren's Model of Visual Function?
The primary functions of this part of the brain are balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
You use this to transfer maximally dependent patients and those who are unable to follow instructions or are unpredictable.
What is a mechanical lift?
This is reduced overall speech rate and distortions in articulation and prosody, or rhythm of speech.
What is apraxia of speech?
This is the ability to perceive a whole figure when only fragments are present.
What is visual closure?
This model focuses on changes by advancing through stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination.
What is transtheoretical model of change?
In this stage of swallowing, the food is visually and olfactorily appreciated, salivation is stimulated, and preparatory mouth movements are made to prepare the oral cavity to receive and mobilize food and liquids.
What is the pre-oral stage?
This type of orthosis uses moving parts to permit, control, or restore movement, and is used to apply intermittent gentle force with the goal of lengthening tissues to restore range of motion.
What is a dynamic orthosis?
This is the abnormal alignment of the eyes.
What is strabismus?
This is the perception of pain in response to non-painful stimuli.
What is allodynia?
Although not used much today, this frame of reference discusses facilitatory and inhibitory techniques to influence tone.
What is Rood FOR?
With a forearm-based orthosis, the length of the proximal part of the orthosis should be this length of the forearm.
What is 2/3?
A volumeter and circumferential measurements are used to assess this.
What is edema?
This is a severe form of nonfluent aphasia where spoken output and auditory comprehension are impaired.
What is global aphasia?
This is defined as involuntary resistance of muscle to passive stretch.
What is tone?
This model focuses on current unhealthy thought patterns and how they lead to unhealthy behavior.
What is cognitive-behavior model?
These are holes in visual acuity that are caused by diseases or trauma that degenerate the macula or the retina, demyelinate or damage the optic nerve, or reduce the vasculature to the eye.
What is a visual scotoma?
This is used to shift an image from the impaired visual field into the intact area.
This is the inability to identify a known individual by facial recognition alone.
What is prosopagnosia?
This type of memory involves general facts or knowledge about the world.
What is semantic memory?
This frame of reference uses techniques for awareness of body position and movement though specific commands and cues directed at muscles and nerves, to help a client achieve new movement patterns.
What is proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation FOR?
This is a patient-centered strategy for substance abuse that increases intrinsic motivation using non-confrontational communication that reflects empathy, an effective strategy for patients who verbalize resistance to change.
What is motivational interviewing?