SPA 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Low Birth Weight, Birth Weight, Physical Therapy
7 Oct 2020
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Week 6: what we need to do, think about the family to provide the child with the best possible care, developing family-centered clinical practice, frist encounter with family, gathering client and family data. Involving family in the assessment process: reporting assessment information to the family, planning intervention program with the family, throughout all contact. In the context of the family: requirements of the ifsp. Intercranial hemorrhaged: treatment of the premature child may also have negative consequences, survival rates have increased in the last 50 years. In 1960, only about 50% of these babies survived. If services continue to be needed, then head start would pick them up: high risk infants in nicu, 12% of infants begin life in the nicu. Just determine strengths and needs: need to evaluate the infant"s level of physiological organization, premature infants experience irregular respiration, bodily instability, disorganized patterns of alertness.
