In infant development, which comes first: bilaterality or unilaterality? - Bilaterality precedes unilaterality in infant development.
When does hand
... [Show More] dominance begin to develop? - Hand dominance begins to develop at 3-6 years, and is not fully defined until 6 years.
Can someone with receptive aphasia participate in sensory testing? - Individuals with this disorder cannot comprehend spoken or written words or symbols. Individuals cannot understand verbal directions or respond to sensory stimuli.
What is agnosia? - Agnosia is a category of deficits where the patient lacks recognition of familiar object as perceived by the senses. This could involve all the senses and manifests with problems in body scheme, such as somatognosia and anosognosia.
What is somatognosia? - Lack of awareness of one's body parts.
What is anosognosia? - Transient, severe form of neglect. Patient does not recognize the presence of severity of his paralysis.
What is prospagnosia? - Face blindness. Inability to identify an individual by their face.
What is visual-spatial agnosia? - Affects perception of spatial relationship between objects, or between objects and self.
What is auditory agnosia? - Inability to recognize sounds, words and non-words.
What is visual agnosia? - Lack of ability to recognize common objects and demonstrate their use in an activity.
What is apraxia? - Loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned (familiar) movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements.
What is ideomotor apraxia? - Inability to imitate gestures or perform a purposeful motor task on command, even though the patient is able to fully understand the idea or concept of a task. This is often associated with left hemisphere damage.
What is ideational apraxia? - The disability of carrying out complex sequential motor acts. Caused by a disruption of the conception, rather than execution. (loss of tool function knowledge) [Show Less]