Can anyone help me write my son's medical notes in English?

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We might have to move back to the UK (to cut a long story short, the Greek economy is going down the tubes, bills are mounting and dh is facing redundancy). In anticipation of this, I'm just trying to translate ds2's medical notes into English. It's just that I've never had to deal with these things in English, and I'm not sure of the correct terminology. It's just a few things, really.

these are the points I'm not sure on, especially the bold bits:

Generalised Diagnosis: muscular hypotonia and cerebral?/ mental? hypotonia
Specific Diagnosis would we say specialised diagnosis??

Psychological impediment

Speech barrier?? impediment ??

what do we call the movement skills to do with small details, greater precision?

I've also asked his physiotherapist if he could write a progress report that I could take with me.

Thanks if you can help!

I can't be much help, but I think the movement skills would be Gross [or large] motor skills and fine [or small] motor skills.

The speech could be just called "difficulties" here or it might be given an official name.

The muscular hypertonia would be the same but don't know about the cerebral.

Hope thats a start.

Of course! Motor skills! Thanks!

'learning difficulties' is a much used phrased here, would that be the same as psychological impediment? Or cognitive impairment?

speech would probably be something like speech and language impairment/disorder/difficulties/issues/delay?

not sure about cerebral hypotonia, could you explain more?

fine and gross motor difficulties as ineed says.

sounds a bit like a global developmental delay (a much used description here) info here which may be useful.

cerebral hypotonia just means low tone caused by a neuro issue, doesn't it? (like brain damage causing low tone with cerebral palsy?)

definitely motor skills is the term you need (fine and gross)

not sure about the 'psychological impediment' thing.

get a recent report form each therapist and translate as far as you can - it's really helpful for referrals.

what particular issues with slt? is it just pronounciation (dysarthria or similar?) or disordered or delayed speech?

Thanks, NinjaGoose.

I think global developmental delay sounds about right.

I'm not sure if cognitive impairment is right. The way it's used in Greek, it means that he seems to be capable of more than he actually does, as though he is afraid to attempt something new, although he might be able to do it, if you get what I mean. Perhaps I should write a few sentences in explanation, rather than just a phrase.

cerebral hypotonia - it means that his mental development is underperforming, moving slowly. I think your global developmental delay description seems to fit here, actually.

He has delayed speech, and doesn't produce many different sounds. For example, he calls me 'Mmmuh' (my other children say 'Mummy') and his father is 'bbuh' (Daddy in Greek is Babas). He doesn't seem to produce many more vowel sounds.

He sees a paediatric neurologist, whose motto seems to be "Why write it once, if you can write it 5 times in 5 different ways" but at least it means there's lots of explanation!

Verbal dyspraxia (or Apraxia - American) is for problem producing speech sounds because of movement difficulties