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Kennedy, Johanna; Brown, Ted; Chien, Chi-Wen – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2012
Client-centered practice requires therapists to actively seek the perspectives of children and families. Several assessment tools are available to facilitate this process. However, when evaluating motor skill performance, therapists typically concentrate on performance-based assessment. To improve understanding of the information provided by the…
Descriptors: Parents, Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Evaluation Methods
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Verschuren, Olaf; Ketelaar, Marjolijn; Keefer, Daniel; Wright, Virginia; Butler, Jane; Ada, Louise; Maher, Carol; Reid, Siobhan; Wright, Marilyn; Dalziel, Blythe; Wiart, Lesley; Fowler, Eileen; Unnithan, Viswanath; Maltais, Desiree B.; van den Berg-Emons, Rita; Takken, Tim – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2011
Aim: Evidence-based recommendations regarding which exercise tests to use in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) are lacking. This makes it very difficult for therapists and researchers to choose the appropriate exercise-related outcome measures for this group. This study aimed to identify a core set of exercise tests for children…
Descriptors: Children, Physical Activities, Health Personnel, Cerebral Palsy
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Hillier, Susan; McIntyre, Auburn; Plummer, Leanne – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2010
Aquatic therapy is an intervention for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) that has not been investigated formally. This was a pilot randomized controlled trial to investigate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of an aquatic therapy program to improve motor skills of children with DCD. Thirteen children (mean age 7…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Physical Therapy, Developmental Disabilities
Kelso, Rose-Anne; Price, Sue – 1988
Children with Down Syndrome have the potential for the development of a large range and variety of postures, balance reactions, movements, and skills. Sometimes this potential remains relatively untapped resulting in unusual, inefficient, or even detrimental patterns of movement. By handling and playing with the child, he or she becomes more aware…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Downs Syndrome, Foreign Countries, Human Posture