Fragile X Syndrome
Can be provided to students with FXS in highschool ages 18-21 to prepare for independent living:
What is Transition Program?
In literacy for pediatric TBI patients, this is associated with implicit goals, assumptions, and inferences.
What is functional reading comprehension?
3 reasons why a child with ASD may have oral language difficulties:
What is smaller vocabulary repertoire, difficulty with proper grammar usage, difficulty understanding abstract language & figurative speech, receptive language delays, and difficulty with the pragmatic aspect of language
Elementary-aged children with FASD display significant delays in _______ language skills?
What is oral language skills?
This device is recommended for children with cerebral palsy who have difficulty speaking due to poor breath support or muscle control.
What is AAC device ?
One way to help children with Fragile X Syndrome develop social skills and relationships:
What is: strategies include using buddy systems, fostering classroom inclusion, teaching turn-taking, and using visual supports?
This activity accounted for an estimated 325,000 TBI-related emergency department visits among children and teens in 2012.
What is sports and recreational activities?
Considerations for assessing hearing in children with Autism
What is: Allow the child to explore the earphones prior to testing, incorporate the child’s preferred interests into testing, create a social story out of the hearing screening, use pictures so the child will know what to expect, and practice physically responding to the sound with the child.
By middle school, children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) often face more pronounced oral language difficulties due to
What is increased demands of academic and social communication?
This type of hearing loss, often caused by middle ear infections, is more common in children with cerebral palsy than sensorineural hearing loss.
What is conductive hearing loss?
Individuals with FXS have been shown to have _____ vocabularies that are significantly weaker than those of younger children with typical development
What is Receptive?
What is important for a student with pediatric TBI to have in order to deal with fewer difficulties in social interactions and isolation?
What is a friendship (at least one)?
The Autism Project offers...
What is social skills groups led by speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, mental health practitioners and other professionals for Ages 5-10, Pre-teens, Teens, and Young Adults?
Among younger, elementary school-aged children with FAS, which deficits tend to improve by adolescence?
What is phonological processing and single-word reading?
This speech condition, common in children with cerebral palsy, involves difficulty coordinating muscle movements required to produce specific sounds.
What is apraxia of speech ?
This issue may include sound prolongations, fillers, and silent pauses, reflecting difficulty with speech planning and word retrieval in school-aged children with FXS
What is Speech Disfluencies?
This standardized tool is a 15-point scale used to measure a patient's level of consciousness in areas such as eye-opening, verbal, and motor responses.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
The GORT-5 and WRMT-III are both standardized assessments that can be used to assess...
What is Literacy?
For individuals with FASD, what other problem area is reported almost as frequently as the most noted problem of attention deficit?
What is problems in the social domain?
Around this age, families are encouraged to begin transitioning children with cerebral palsy to adult care due to increased stress and strain on their bodies.
What is 12 to 14 years old?
Medication sometimes used to help manage ADHD symptoms in children with Fragile X Syndrome:
What is Stimulants?
What is a collaborative approach that quantifies treatment outcomes using a point scale (Particularly applicable in TBI treatment that targets executive functions)?
What is goal attainment scaling (GAS)?
Peer-mediated interventions involve prompting and reinforcing the efforts of typically developing peers to:
What is initiate conversation with and respond to children with communication problems?
Social challenges faced by children with FASD may lead to
What is social isolation and lower self-esteem?
For children with cerebral palsy, this advanced diagnostic tool evaluates the brainstem's response to sound and is crucial for detecting hearing issues.
What is the auditory brainstem response (ABR) test?