Motor control

AP is an active and pleasant 12 months old infant, who is well dressed and appears to be clean. He plays with variety of toys at home. He seems very closely bonded with his mother. He sits in her lap for comfort. His mother is relaxed and have no complaints. Vital Signs: HR 105 regular, RR 30 breath per minute, BP 92/60mmHg. Temperature is 99.4 F. He is 31 inches tall (90.3 percentile). He weighs 22.5 lbs. (72.6 percentile). Head circumference is 43.5 cm (61.8 percentile). BMI is 16.5. No…

raking grasp. The third baby appears to be the oldest. He is very stable while sitting, observes other things by looking around, and holds the clothespin with a pincer grasp. The teacher is working with all three babies to help improve their fine motor skills by having them drop a clothespin into a bottle.…

has been influenced with limited left UE use. All areas in motor skills are restrained and require modification; aligns, stabilizes, position, reaches, bends, grips, manipulates, coordination, moves, lift and endures. Initially, The MMT will be used to use to test muscle strength. The Dynamometry may test his grip and pinch strength, and Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) is designed to access the motor ability from moderate to severe UE motor deficit. Process skills are affected by immobility,…

an AAC device. The patient’s operational competence is one of the most important. Operational competence is the ability to use the device. If the device is high-tech, will the patient be able to turn it on? For someone with tremors or subpar fine motor skills, a high-tech device that must be turned on by a tiny button may not be the best choice. If someone is unable to move their upper body, a low-tech AAC board that requires pointing would not be the best option either. It is essential to take…

Early childhood human development is a very critical foundation for a child’s academic and social communication. Consequently, I believe my analysis of Mike’s language disability is having a lasting affect on his progress in communication and cognitive development. Some of his disability could be traced to early human development. Deiner and Deiner state that “vowels and the consonants /p/, /b/, /m/, an /w/ are [the] easiest for a young child to pronounce” (p. 277). Moreover, I believe Mike…

1) What important information can be obtained from a neurologically-impaired patient while taking a thorough history? Important information that can be obtained during a thorough history of a neurologically-impaired patient is the speed of onset of condition and the pattern of progression. The patient can describe the symptoms through each stage of the onset from acute, subacute and the chronic stage. The pattern of progression can be found with the patient determining whether there symptoms…

In order to complete the puppet play therapy with our young client there are a few materials that the social worker will need to have. Most importantly, if there is any training that are required to be taken it is the social worker’s responsibility to complete mandatory training before administering play therapy to children and/or adolescence. For the experienced social worker, there are a few tools that one may need for their client and themselves. Since we are creating puppets it is important…

Augmenting Motor Skill Acquisition In an attempt to describe the augmentation of motor skill acquisition I am going refer to the work of Schmidt and Lee (2014) throughout this assignment and inform my comments around a skill used in basketball; the free throw. A free throw is a skill that is generally unaffected by environmental factors, such as opposition. This results in a stable and highly predictable environment throughout performance. These characteristics of a free throw describe a closed…

Smits-Engelsman et al have recommended that task-oriented intervention methods such as NTT and CO-OP be used with confidence for children with DCD who need to improve on their motor performance. Current research has shown that NTT will be recommended for children suffering with DCD as training leads to positive task-specific change on motor skills. CO-OP has also shown some positive effects but further research is said to be required. (Smits-Engelsman et al,…

sensation and the resulting motor, behavior, emotion, and attention responses. It is about the early stages of development (Kielhofner, 2009, p. 204). Therefore, the model limits on OT in how to gather the information; which is usually applying different assessment like the Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests(SIPT) and how to create intervention as many of the intervention is aimed at changing the sensory integration problem (Kielhofner, 2009, p.225). Last, the motor control model is concerned…