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Children with poor _______ abilities do not "feel" the pressure they need to apply when grasping a pencil. In this instance they may bear down too hard and write too darkly, or not apply enough pressure and write too lightly.
Proprioceptive
This type of CP has less effect on muscle tone, but greatly affects BALANCE and COORDINATION.
Ataxia
Difficulty with motor planning is called _______ (especially children with sensory-based motor planning deficits)
Dyspraxia
Mark is unable to distinguish a dime from a nickel. What is he most likely having difficulty with?
Visual discrimination
Which pencil grasp is considered the most mature?
Dynamic tripod
What type of learner benefits from role playing and feeling the letters?
Kinesthetic or tactile
What type of intervention is based on the theory of learned nonuse and requires children to try and use the affected hand?
Constraint-induced movement therapy
Swinging on a platform swing provides __________ and_________feedback to children.
Vestibular and proprioceptive
Oral motor difficulties, irritability, poor self-regulation, oversensitivity to sounds or touch, and colic are early signs of what?
Sensory Processing Dysfunction
A child with ______ disability may be able to write their name, remember their home phone number, understand written numbers and basic concepts of money.
Moderate
Brigit is an 8-year-old girl who presses hard on the paper and frequently smears her letters and rips the paper. What do you expect to observe with her grasp pattern?
Tight Grasp
What co-occupation does a child learn at birth?
Feeding
__________ devices are used in an area of clinical practice that attempts to compensate (either temporarily or permanently) when an individual has difficulty using speech as a primary means of communication.
Communication technologies (Alternative Augmentative Communications AAC)
You are working with a child with CP. They are tolerating prone on elbows position well. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate position to progress them further?
Quadruped
This level of motor function is described as " self-mobility with limitations. May use powered mobility; may walk short distances with a mobility device but relies primarily on wheeled mobility." (Level 1-5?)
IV
Movements in and out of different positions are called _________.
Transitional Movements
The __________ position is good for elongating and stretching the hip flexors.
Prone
_______are systems that allow an individual to control his or her environment.
Environmental control units
Rotary chew begins to develop around what age?
10-12 months
Children with _________ disorder have difficulties distinguishing between sensory stimuli.
Sensory discrimination
True or False: Spasticity is a sign of lower motor neuron damage.
FALSE
The OT practitioner sets up the __________during therapy sessions, which is one that is neither too hard nor too easy,
Just-right challenge
_______ age refers to the age level at which the child is functioning, whereas chronological age refers to the child's actual age.
Mental
These are designed to lengthen tissues and correct deformities in children with CP through application of gentle forces sustained for extended periods with the goal of reducing tightness or spasticity in a selected muscle group.
Serial static orthoses and casts
What texture is easiest to begin with when transitioning to solid foods?
Smooth puree