Testing 101
The state you test a baby in
What is quiet alert?
Reflexes that support feeding
What is rooting and suck and swallow?
A sign of upper extremity low tone
What is the scarf sign?
What is the flexor withdrawal reflex?
The number noses a slug has
What is 4?
Believe multiple factors and systems contribute to development of and elicitation of reflexes
Who are dynamic systems theorists?
Reflex that prepares infants for fine motor development
What is the palmar grasp?
Sign of poor head control
What is a head lag?
Disappears with increased size around 2 months old
What is the stepping reflex?
These animals breathe out their butts
Asymmetrical and obligatory
What are abnormal responses to reflex testing?
What is the reflex that occurs at 37 weeks gestation and occurs when the head is turned resulting in arm extension on the side the infant is looking and flexing of the arm toward the ear in the fencer pose?
Typical resting posture for an infant born at 40 weeks gestation
What is physiological flexion?
If it persists it leads to a "bunny hop" or difficulty with crawling
What is the STNR?
Flynn Rider's real name in Tangled
What is Eugene Fiherbert?
Absent and inappropriately persistent
What are other possible responses to reflex testing?
4-6 months
What is the age of integration of most primitive reflexes?
The last direction protective reactions develop in sitting
What is backwards?
Breaks up flexor dominance by facilitating prone extension
What is the landau reflex?
Spongebob Squarepants' best friend
Who is Patrick Star?
28 weeks
What is the earliest you can expect primitive reflexes to develop?
Last reflex to test
What is the moro?
The expected protective reactions you expect to be present in a 6 month old
What is postural fixation, LE downward, UE forward (parachute)?
The initiation of hand-eye coordination
What is ATNR?
Discovered gravity
Who is Newton?