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Form 3. Developmental Disabilities, Mental Retardation or Cognitive Impairment Checklist
Name: _________________________ Date: ____________________
INSTRUCTIONS: Please assist the doctor by completing the following information.
BEHAVIOR:
What are behaviors like? Specify if there are difficulties with such items as screaming inappropriately, talking
excessively, temper tantrums, etc.
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE, COGNITION:
- Please describe the patient's speech and language. (What sounds, phrases or sentences can the patient vocalize?)
- Can the patient name items, repeat things being said, understand what is being said?
- Can the patient write or read?
- Does the nature of the speech make sense?
- Can the patient attend to his or her appearance?
- Does the patient tend to laugh or cry without control? Does the crying or laughter occur suddenly without reason?
- Is the patient oriented to person, place and time? What is the patient's memory like?
- Can the patient perform any calculations?
- How complex a command could the patient follow?
- Does the patient seem to have hallucinations or delusions?
- Is the patient depressed?
- Does the patient tend to repeat sounds or phrases inappropriately when speaking?
CRANIAL NERVES:
- How is the patient's vision?
- Does the patient have double vision?
- Are there abnormal eye movements?
- Is there any drooping of one side of the face?
- How is the patient's hearing?
- Is there any swallowing problem?
- Can the patient shrug his or her shoulders? Can the patient turn his or her head from side to side?
- Can the patient stick out his or her tongue?
MOTOR:
- What is the strength like in the right arm?
- What is the strength like in the left arm?
- What is the strength like in the right leg?
- What is the strength like in the left leg?
- Does the patient have rigid tone in one or more limbs of the body?
- Are there any sudden abnormal movements such as twisting movements, stretching movements, jerking movements, tremors or shaking movements, etc.?
SENSORY:
- Does the patient have difficulty feeling things in any part of the body? Please specify where.
COORDINATION AND GAIT:
- Can the patient walk? What is the walking like?
- Can the patient sit upright on a flat surface like his or her bed?
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