Pediatric Cognitive-Communication Disorders

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Pediatrics: Developmental Brain Injury

•brain injury that occurs prior to birth and can be caused by genetic, congenital or environmental factors

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Pediatrics: Acquired Brain Injury

brain injury that occurs after birth but during childhood

•Trauma

•Infection

•Stroke

•Tumor

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Pediatric interdisciplinary care team

•PT/OT/SP

•Physicians - Neuro, PM&R, etc.

•Psychology, Neuropsychology

•Pediatric Care Coordinator, Educational Support Team

•School, Teachers, Social Work

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Pediatric outcomes

•Relationship of health constructs to stages of recovery and order in which abilities return after injury

<p>•Relationship of health constructs to stages of recovery and order in which abilities return after injury</p>
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Assessment - Objective Measures for pediatrics

•Pediatric Test of Brain Injury

•FAVRES - S

•RIPA - Primary

•Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test -Pediatric Edition

•Woodcock Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities

•Behavioural Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS)

•*Be sure to checks norms and standardization methods*

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Assessment - Case History for pedatrics

•Should always consider background and pre-injury characteristics

•Prior level of functioning

•Previous school services? or diagnoses?

•Previous grades (Favorite subject/least favorite subject)

-Core deficits inherent in executive functioning

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Pediatrics: Core deficits inherent in executive functioning

establishing a framework to complete goal, starting, stopping, tracking, and switching may be circumvented by the controlled nature of standardized assessment measures

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Pediatrics: Language Versus Cognition?

Language is embedded in cognition

•Consider naming tests - most brain injury assessments will have language components/subtests

•Consider age-appropriate convergent and divergent naming tasks

•Language sample

•Consider age-appropriate phonological awareness tasks and premorbid levels

•Parent report

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Pediatrics and attention

•Consider all types of attention and how they relate to school/premorbid activities- try to simulate all in order to determine deficits and effectiveness in different environments

•Breakdowns may depend on the complexity of the task

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Expected attention spans by age

•2 year old: 4-6 min

•4 year old: 8-12 min

•6 year old: 12-18 min

•8 year old: 16-24 min

•10 year old: 20-30 min

•12 year old: 24- 36 min

•14 year old: 28-42 min

•16 year old: 32-48 min

•These are just averages to consider

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Pediatrics and memory

•Be able to discern if the breakdown is occurring at the attention, encoding, storage or retrieval process level

•Determine appropriate compensatory strategies

•Internal strategies

•External strategies and aids

•Consider the complexity of working memory tasks

•Be aware of the high demand of new learning for students – usually assessment and treatment sessions only span the course of ~30 min – 1 hour

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What Do Executive Functioning Deficits Look Like in Peds?

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Peds treatment

•Balancing motivating activities and those that address cognitive functions necessary for successful return to school

•Types of activities and how you address deficits will be dependent on age of the child

•For younger children important to be aware of developmental norms

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Treatment - Metacognition and Strategy Training for Peds

•Planning, monitoring and adapting/modifying plans

•Think Aloud Tasks

•Consider all tasks that might be required in school

•Ask questions like how can we prepare for this task? How ill I know when I need to take a break? What are the steps to complete this? Why did you make that decision? Would you do anything differently next time?

•Don't fall into the TUTOR TRAP - teach skills that generalize across contexts

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Peds education

•Educate family, caregivers of recommended strategies

•Family/caregivers should be a part of sessions

•Educate teachers, paraprofessionals, etc. on brain injury and deficits

•Family empowerment - connecting with resources, advocacy tools, etc.

•Family involvement is a key prognostic indicator of recovery and return to functional independence

•Consider the psychological impact of injury to all involved and especially the patient

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Peds: return to school

•School integration should be gradual with close monitoring of successes and challenges

•Homebound tutoring is available for students who are not medically appropriate to return to school yet

•Communication between rehab team and school is essential for successful return

•Patient can still continue to receive OP SP services as needed when returning to school

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Recommendations and Accommodations for Peds

•Consider what a child's deficits are - there are NOT universal recommendations - recommendations should be individualized

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504 VS. IEP

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