Mixed Bag
At this age infants usually can sit without support
What is 7 months?
A noxious stimulus, such as a pinprick to the sole of the foot, causes withdrawal of the extremity
What is flexor withdrawal?
The age when mature walking approximates adult gait
What is 7 years old?
This positioning strategy can help babies develop strong neck and shoulder muscles, promote motor skills, and prevent positional plagiocephaly
What is tummy time?
This is the preferred place for evaluating children
What is the natural environment?
Some children have an imaginary playmate at this age
What is 3-4 years?
The colloquialism "log rolling" describes this early reflex
What is neonatal neck righting?
This is the next developmental step in feeding, after a young child is able to finger feed
What is dipping a spoon in food?
This is the age when children can cut simple shapes such as squares
What is 4-5 years?
When a therapist determines the component parts of a task, including the activity requirements and prerequisites in order to ensure a child is successful.
What is activity (task) analysis?
It is common for toddlers to have this kind of spinal curvature
What is lumbar lordosis? (with protruding abdomen)
Light touch on the side of the mouth/cheek elicits this early reflex
What is the rooting reflex?
This term describes the force with which children grade movements
What is a calibration?
This developmental theory assumes that the individual functions as a complex, dynamic system with many subsystems and that there is an innate organization that occurs between complex parts
What is Dynamic Systems Theory?
This assessment tool uses 2 structured observations to evaluate play in young children
What is the Knox Preschool Play Scale-Revised?
Toddlers engage in this type of play alongside peers
What is parallel play?
This reflex is often described as the fencing position
What is ATNR?
When does commando crawling start?
What is 7-8 months?
In this characteristic of preoperational thought a child is only able to see things from their own point of view
What is egocentrism?
Pediatric evaluation should start with this approach
What is a top-down approach to evaluation?
At this age infants often begin to develop true stranger & separation anxiety
What is 9-11 months?
Absence of this response when stroked along the paravertebral line may indicate spinal nerve damage
What is Galant's Response?
Infants can roll from supine-to-back, and roll from back-to-stomach at this age
What is 4-6 months?
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development includes this milestone which is the knowledge that a person or object continues to exist even when out of sight
What is object permanence?
This broad framework can guide the evaluation process
What is the OTPF, or the ICF?