Posttest for Childhood stroke: medical aspects, consequences, and implications for interventions

Stroke is a clinical neurological syndrome that can occur in all ages*
- A. True
- B. False
Acute stroke symptoms on children always include hemiparesis and hemifacial weakness*
- A. True
- B. False
Childhood stroke is usually caused by:*
- A. Arterial ischemic infarcts only
- B. Arterial ischemic infarcts or non-traumatic hemorrhages (bleeding)
- C. Acute, non-traumatic, hemorrhages (bleedings) only
Language difficulties following childhood stroke*
- A. Resolves in all patients by time, usually leaving no remaining difficulties in children
- B. Are the sole remaining difficulty in children that suffered stroke under the age of 6
- C. Have impact on language and communication skills in about a third of patients one year post-stroke
Childhood stroke affects cognitive functions in approximately 50% of the cases.*
- A. Executive functions such as divided attention and inhibitory control seem to be especially at risk
- B. Cognitive functions are affected only in patients with stroke in the frontal lobes
- C. Cognitive functions are almost never affected if the child has a stroke in the basal ganglia