Deck 14: Children Who Have Motor Issues and Those With Other Health Impairments

Question 1

American children are expected to learn most necessary self-care and adaptive skills by kindergarten.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Explain the vestibular and proprioceptive senses.

Answer 2

Vestibular: coordinates movements of the body through space, balance. Proprioceptive: collects information from muscles and joints to determine body position and body awareness.

Question 3

What are the components of motor acquisition?

Answer 3

Postural and balance control, locomotion, reaching, grasping.

Question 4

What is a degenerative disorder?

Question 5

What is the connection between cognition and motor development?

Question 6

Gross motor skills refer to ________ muscle movements and fine motor skills refer to _______ muscle movements.

A) large; small
B) small; large

Question 7

Hypotonia is:

A) Increased muscle tightness.
B) A connective tissue disorder.
C) Low muscle tone.
D) A form of spinal muscular atrophy.

Question 8

Cerebral palsy is diagnosed by:

A) Genetic testing.
B) Medical testing that including brain images.
C) Observation.

Question 9

When does cleft lip and palate develop?

A) Between the 4th and 7th week of pregnancy
B) In the last trimester of pregnancy.
C) As a birth complication.

Question 10

A sensory diet:

A) Is a special diet that eliminated processed foods and sugars to decrease SPD symptoms.
B) is met with regularly scheduled recess periods.
C) Activities and interventions that children do to help with sensory modulation.

Question 11

What are universal health precautions?

A) Daily lice and fever checks.
B) A set of safety procedures aimed at decreasing the spread of disease.
C) The isolation of children with blood borne illnesses.

Question 12

Cephalocaudal development:

A) Occurs in the brain.
B) Progresses from head to toe.
C) Is the process of learning to hold one's head up.

Question 13

Motor development is a result of which of the following:

A) Biomechanics.
B) Environment.
C) Task demands.
D) Central nervous system.
E) All of the above.

Question 14

What is the Dynamic Systems model of motor development?

A) Model that maintains ecological systems impact motor development.
B) Action, perception, and cognition impact motor. Motor development is discontinuous.
C) Motor development happens gradually.

Question 15

Cerebral palsy is a degenerative condition.

Question 16

Chronic health conditions often impact children's social emotional development.

Question 17

What are graphomotor skills?