Brief description of environment of facility/school
Greta is served through Early Intervention with a trans-disciplinary, family routines-based model and Physical Therapist as primary service provider.
Basic Info about client
- Greta
- Age: 30 months
- Diagnosis: Cerebral Palsy – spastic, quadriplegic
- Brief history:
- born after an uncomplicated pregnancy at 39 3/7 weeks
- at birth, she had a heart rate of 92 but no spontaneous respirations
- Apgars were 3 at birth; 4 at one minute; and 4 at ten minutes
- shortly after birth, Greta had Sarnat stage III encephalopathy and on admission to Newborn Intensive Care Unit at 2 ½ hours of age, she had stage II encephalopathy
- initial EEG showed occasional electrographic seizures. She was cooled for 72 hours and her EEG showed improvement
- receives regularly scheduled botulinum toxin injections to most affected areas (usually upper extremity)
- had trial of Sinemet for motor function, but drug was discontinued due to gastrointestinal side effects (vomiting)
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