Feeding
This condition involves ingestion of non-food substances due to nutritional deficiencies.
What is Pica?
A personality asset or skill common to individuals with Down syndrome.
What are social skills/ friendliness?
Program funded via Part C if IDEA which helps children with Down syndrome, MD, and other conditions learn developmental skills in the most natural environment to them.
What is Early Intervention?
Alignment, Base of Support, and Center of Mass
What are the ABC’s of NDT?
This type of utensil helps individuals with limited wrist or hand movement feed themselves more easily.
What is an offset spoon or fork?
The last stage of swallowing.
What is the esophageal stage?
What is amniocentesis?
The most common type of muscular dystrophy.
What is Duchenne muscular dystrophy?
The ability to maintain stability during stationary activities.
What is steady state balance?
A feeding tool used to increase oral stimulation to the users lips and toungue
What is a texturized spoon (utensil)?
The gestational age that the suck and swallow pattern begin developing.
What is 32 weeks gestational age?
An absence of this protein causes muscular dystrophy
What is dystrophin?
This type of muscular dystrophy often presents later in life and with general muscle stiffness.
What is Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy?
A movement of the distal upper extremity that corresponds with internal rotation of the shoulder.
What is forearm pronation?
A child with poor lip closure or persistent tongue thrust may benefit from this adapted feeding tool.
What is a shallow or maroon spoon?
When food or liquid enters the trachea and can cause pneumonia.
What is aspiration?
The rarest form of Down syndrome.
What is translocation Down syndrome?
A physical characteristic of Down syndrome which may impact handwriting and other fine motor tasks.
What are shortened hands, fingers, or absent hand creases?
Activation of your postural muscles in a feedforward manner prior to voluntary movement
What is proactive or anticipatory balance?
A tool that assists with learning to drink from a straw by utilizing a one way valve to prevent back flow.
What is the bear straw cup?
Condition during which stomach acid flows back up one's esophagus causing pain and discomfort (FULL NAME)
Gastroesophageal reflux disease.
This type of pregnancy increases the odds of having a child with Down syndrome.
What is geriatric pregnancy?
One of the conditions associated with Down syndrome which may lead to decreased life span.
What are heart defects, leukemia, and/or thyroid disease?
The framework used to describe health, disability, and health related domains.
What is the ICF?
A weighted utensil may help provide increased sensory feedback which is helpful for children (with a variety of diagnoses) that present with this dysfunction.
What is hypotonicity or low tone?
When this structure is shortened it causes decreased range of motion of the tongue.
What is the lingual frenulum?
In this condition, only some cells have and extra 21st chromosome resulting in fewer symptoms.
What is Mosaic Down syndrome?
A common physical trait of children with muscular dystrophy not due to strength but instead due to damage to muscles.
What are enlarged calves?
This preparatory postural adjustment occurs in a feed forward manner.
This tool allows the user with limited neck extension to access all contents of a cup and prevents aspiration.
What is the Flexy Nosey Cup?