Common Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children PDF

1 2 -kids need to be evaluated to see if they have autism or ADHD making them really impulsive 3 -kids can start early intervention (ST, OT, PT) as early as 18 months -developmental and disability delays are diff. -devel...

1 2 -kids need to be evaluated to see if they have autism or ADHD making them really impulsive 3 -kids can start early intervention (ST, OT, PT) as early as 18 months -developmental and disability delays are diff. -developmental delayed à kid is little delayed and walks at 15 months à there may be delay but once they start walking, they are walking a lot and not having problem -if you are very premature à you will get PT 6 months of age. Early intervention services is good then we will see the kid at 3 year of age and they are fine now after like a speech delay, then we will send them to pre-k but if the kid has problem/delay they will go to developmental pre k program which is for developmental disability In kindergarten they get reevaluated again to check if they should still receive the service. In prek they get evaluated by CPC Occupational therapy can last through high school and PT lasts through 2-3rd grade and speech therapy can go all the way through but usually you are reevaluating to see their status 4 -ex would be reading disability, even tho the child remediated from it they can go to college or become a doctor but they still don’t feel comfortable reading 5 6 7 8 -DD à developmental delay 9 10 -if a child has a reading disability they will always have it but can overcome it 11 -intellectual disability is now called autism spectrum disorder 12 -front is the broca’s area and that gives you the ability to express yourself verbally -temporal lobe has Wernicke’s and that’s your ability to listen and comprehend what you hear 13 -receptive à child understands English but understand the info slower so they can’t keep so you either need to simplify or repeat it for them -expressive à problem explaining and can get very upset -CAP à lower level processing so they have a hard time processing sounds of language 14 -reading and writing are impt for language processing -early the diagnosis the better the outcome 15 16 17 18 19 -usually spell the word as it sounds 20 -freud said the reason the kids couldn’t read is bc of their mother 21 -neural ectopia à seen on the left side of the brain which is your language and the neural ectopia is a nerve that goes to the surface of the brain but it doesn’t connect anywhere -it starts on the left brain and maybe needs to connect to the right brain -shows a neurological change in dyslexic brains 22 -in the temporal lobe there is an angular gyrus and it lights up during phonological problems but people who are dyslexic, it doesn’t light up -this study shows that dyslexic are processing the angular gyrus but activation is low -with the FMRI à the angular gyrus activation increased for dyslexic individual with the therapy but it was still less than general population 23 -have a hard time rhyming -have a hard time sounding out works 24 -dyslexia is a common reading problem 25 -look at IQ, memory, attention, executive functioning, fine motor skills 26 -basic treatment for dyslexia is the need to learn how to sound out words 27 -high correlation between visual spacing and processing -dyslexic pts can be good at math but poor with word math problems 28  Most kids with wiritn disability have good language skills and they are very verbal but when it comes to writing they have organization problems etc Dyslexic kids have Dysgraphia because they cannot spell so that’s why they have problem writing Adhd kids have poor organization skills and they cannot pay attention long enough to write things If they have expressive lanague issue they can have poor writing skill Non-verbal learning disability – intact verbal skills but thye have poor visual processing skills and have poor organization skills that manifests in their writing Lot of times you will start with basic components and then have them write more Take them long to catch up **From tahmina 29 -these pts are able to pay attention to tv and video games but have inconsistent attention on activities that require sustained mental effort 30 -ADHD disappears in teenage year 31