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Beatriz Helena Brugnaro; Gesica Fernandes; Fabiana Nascimento Vieira; Silvia Letícia Pavão; Nelci Adriana Cicuto Ferreira Rocha – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic and its demands of social distancing have created challenges in the lives of children/adolescents with developmental disabilities and their families, which would change aspects of children's functioning. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in some components of functioning of children/adolescents with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Distance
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Gabriela Lopes Gama; Janiele Sales Tavares; Ana Stela Salvino de Brito; Thamyris de Sales Regis; Hannah Cavalcante Guedes Pinheiro; Mariana Balbino da Silva; Jousilene Sales Tavares; Adriana Melo – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
To use the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to investigate whether children with congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) show changes in their functioning and disability profile after nine months. This study included children with CZS recruited from a support centre for children with microcephaly in Brazil. The…
Descriptors: Diseases, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Classification
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Lopes, Priscila Bianchi; Shikako-Thomas, Keiko; Cardoso, Roberta; Simões Matsukura, Thelma – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Background: Social participation is a complex construct, thus different factors may facilitate or restrict engagement. Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and their mothers often experience barriers in social participation. Therefore, they are frequently facing challenges in order to engage in meaningful activities, in different contexts.…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Adolescents, Mothers, Attitudes
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Mohamadi, Omid; Torabinezhad, Farhad; Ebadi, Abbas – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The Oral Motor Assessment Scale (OMAS) is a diagnostic tool used to assess the oral motor skills in individuals with neurological and neuromuscular disorders. This assessment was developed by Brazilian researchers and for the first time, its validity and reliability was examined in Brazil. The purpose of the present study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Test Reliability, Test Validity