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CSD 502
Early Intervention
Question | Answer |
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What are the purposes of EI? | Enhance development; minimize potential for delay; support families in prompting child's optimal development; facilitate child's participation in natural environments |
Specialized knowledge of development and intervention for infants and toddlers who have or are at-risk for: | Communication; speech; language; hearing; feeding/swallowing; social/emotional behaviour; assistive technology |
Who will be considered the expert for hearing on the team? | Rare that an audiologist will be apart of team; SLP will be considered expert - if you're not thinking about hearing than no one else on the team will be |
ECI addresses the development of infants and young children who are at risk of delay: | Environmental disadvantage; biological risk; or established disabilities |
What are considered biological risks? | Very low birth weight; children exposed to alcohol or other drugs in utero |
What are considered environmental risks? | Unresponsive parenting; families living in poverty; families subjected to domestic violence |
What is the role of the SLP on EI team? | Consultation; service coordination; transitioning planning; advocacy; awareness & advancement of the knowledge base |
What are current barriers? | Children not being referred early enough; conflicting/confusing public health campaigns; misinformation; pseudoscience |
What is late language emergence (LLE)? | Late talking with most but not all maturing out of their difficulties |
What are established risks? | Genetic disorder; sensory impairments; neurological conditions; perinatal factors |
What are at-risk conditions? | Maternal mental health; socioeconomic status; access to health services; family composition & environmental factors; low birth weight; exposure to drugs or alocohol |
Dysmorphic features to consider with hair: | Hair texture; hair growth patterns; uneven hair growth; are there other patches of hair on body |
Dysmorphic features to consider with eyes: | Shaping; spacing; pupil shape; different shapes of inner corner; star shape irises |
Dysmorphic features to consider with teeth: | Unusual tooth eruption patterns; teeth coming in out of order; midline offset |
Dysmorphic features to consider with ears: | How high or low set they are; shape (cupped, elongated, small, etc); |
Dysmorphic features to consider with fingers: | Really long or short; spacing between fingers; tips of fingers (pointed); single palmer crease (typical in Down Syndrome); webbing |
Dysmorphic features to consider with toes: | Webbing; any toes fused |
Dysmorphic features to consider with skin: | Skin tags; skin tags by ears (associate w/ kidney issues & hearing loss); multiple slightly darker spots; cathayolay spots |