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Question 1

A developmental disorder defined BEHAVIORLY

Answer 1

Autism

Question 2

Which DD is this?

1) Impaired social communication and social interaction.
2) Repetitive patterns of behaviors

Answer 2

Autism

Question 3

• Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity.
• Deficits in non-verbal communicative behaviors.
• Deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships.

Answer 3

Autism

Question 4

• Stereotypes or repetitive motor movements.
• Insistence on sameness or inflexible adherence to routines.
• Highly restricted, fixated interest.
• Hyperreactivity to sensory input.
• Unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment.

Answer 4

Autism

Question 5

• Deficiencies in symbolic thinking.
• 70% have ID (usu. mild).
• Seizure disorders (30%).
• Sensorimotor deficiencies.
• Echolalia
• Inability to think sympbolically.
• Self-injurious behavior (SIB)

Answer 5

Autism

Question 6

Echolalia definition.

Answer 6

Repeat what others around you are saying.

Question 7

How to diagnose Autism

Answer 7

No definitive diagnostic test.

Question 8

Parents, interested siblings, spouses, caregivers, surrogates, state appointees.

Answer 8

Third parties

Question 9

Info about special needs patients comes from whom?

Answer 9

Third party

Question 10

T/F:

Patients with developmental disabilities are at risk for hydrocephalus and have shunts to remove excessive spinal fluid from the ventricles of the brain.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Patients with shunts may require this.

Answer 11

Antibiotic prophylaxis

Question 12

Constant craving for and infestion of non-food materiala.

Answer 12

Pica

Question 13

People most at risk for Pica

Answer 13

1) Ppl with ID’s

2) Pregnant women

Question 14

Common forms are head banging, self-scratching, and biting.

Answer 14

Self injurious behavior (SIB)

Question 15

T/F:

Drooling, aspiration, and swallowing difficulties are common in patients with special needs.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Upright chair position, multiple suctions, emesis basins, limited use of water coolant.

Answer 16

Modifications of dental techniques for drooling, aspiration, and swallowing difficulties

Question 17

Hx of aspiration pneumonia

Answer 17

In people with drooling, swallowing, and aspiration difficulties.

Question 18

Contraindications to sedation and complicate the use of general anesthesia.

Answer 18

Severe hyphoscoliosis and poor (class 3/4 airways).

Question 19

Can be used if the patient lacks capacity to consent and no consenting party exists.

Answer 19

Surrogate Decision Making (SDM)