Eating/Feeding
The stage of swallowing that involves seeing, smelling and thinking about food. Salivation may also start.
What is the anticipatory stage?
The neurological process that organizes sensations from one's body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively in the environment.
What is Sensory Integration?
Involves reaching, grasping and manipulating objects.
What is fine motor skills?
A term used to describe early childhood trauma occurs when a child experiences an event that causes actual harm or poses a serious threat to a child's physical or emotional well-being.
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
The total process responsible for the reception and interpretation of visual stimuli, allows us to accurately interpret and compare/contrast visual information.
What is Visual Perception?
A protective reflex that prevents the ingestion of pieces of food that are too large to be comfortably swallowed.
What is the gag reflex
Name the 3 "hidden" sensory systems
Proprioceptive
Vestibular
Interoception
At this age, a child is releasing objects voluntarily, developing a refined pincer grasp, banging two toys together, pointing to objects and turning pages of a book.
What is 9-12 months old.
When there is a sympathetic nervous system response to stress or trauma causing panic, fear, anger or rage.
What is fight or flight?
The ability to determine differences or similarities in objects based on size, color, shape, etc.
What is visual discrimination?
Impaired oral intake that is not age-appropriate and is associated with medical, nutritional, feeding skill and /or psychosocial dysfunction.
What is Pediatric Feeding Disorder?
The way the nervous system receives messages from the senses.
What is sensory processing?
This motor skill is crucial to the development of UE stability, muscles and the palmer arches on the ulnar side.
What is crawling?
Neglect and chronic abuse
What is complex trauma?
A standardized assessment that helps assess the extent to which individuals can integrate their visual and motor abilities. It has with 3 main components: visual motor integration, visual perception, and motor coordination.
What is the Beery VMI?
Dysfunction in any stage or process of eating. Including any difficulty in the passage of food, liquid, or medicine, during any stage of swallowing that impairs the client's ability to swallow independently or safely.
What is dysphagia?
The ability to regulate and grade responses that are appropriate to sensory situations experienced in daily life.
What is modulation?
Name the stages of grasping
Raking->radial digital grasp-> isolation of index fingers->fine pincer grasp->tripod pencil grasp.
Where the child uses the primary caregiver as a secure base from which to explore and, when necessary, as a haven of safety and a source of comfort.
What is attachment?
Common symptoms of vision issues include:
What are: headaches, double vision, losing place while reading, reading slowly, fatigue, eye-teaming breakdown, reduced attention span, poor physical coordination
Describe the positioning considerations for feeding: safety and function
Alignment: 90-90-90 (hips,knees,ankles)
Stability at the trunk
Midline orientation
Head and neck aligned with slight chin tuck.
A set of activities, and/or accommodations, that can help an autistic person regulate their sensory system.
What is a sensory diet?
A fine motor skill involving translation, rotation and shift of objects in the hand.
What is In-hand manipulation?
Providing care that decreases the risk of re-traumatization, fosters understanding and compassion and takes a different perspective on behaviors.
What is Trauma Informed Care (TIC)?
A disorder caused by damage to the parts of the brain that process vision.
What is Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)?