An Assessment of the Motor Handicap of Children with Cerebral ...

Many attempts have been made to assess the motor handicap of children with cerebral palsy and to evaluate the improvement made during treatment. Phelps (l':J53) ...

An Assessment of the Motor Handicap of Children with Cerebral Palsy and of their Response to Treatment. Karel Bobath, M.D. (Prague), D.P.M., and Berta Bobath ...

Assessment of Functional Performance in Children with Cerebral ...

Functional barriers faced by patients with CP are to a greater or lesser extent associated with their abilities related to gross and fine motor ...

assessing real-world arm use in children with cerebral palsy - PubMed

Objective: Widely accepted models of disability suggest that actual use of an impaired upper extremity in everyday life frequently deviates from its motor ...

Cerebral Palsy General Assessment - Physiopedia

The Gross Motor Function Measure is an assessment tool used with children with CP. This test uses a 4-point ordinal scale to evaluate a child's ability to ...

The Assessment of Factors Related to Family Life in Children with ...

A positive weak correlation was observed between the WeeFIM, the number of siblings and CHQ-PF50 values (p<0.05). A negative weak correlation ...

Instrumented assessment of motor function in dyskinetic cerebral palsy

Clinical scales are often combined with questionnaires such as the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) [17] and Child Health ...

High‐level motor skills assessment for ambulant children with ...

High-level motor skills assessment tools have strong psychometric evidence for ambulant, school-aged children with CP.

Measuring intellectual ability in children with cerebral palsy: Can we ...

Although not directly assessing motor skills, most of the subtests of the typically employed, standard intelligence tests are dependent upon verbal responses, ...

Development of sitting ability, assessment of children with a motor ...

The prescription of appropriate seating for children and young adults with a motor handicap is a complex issue requiring a clear identification of the child's ...

Motor speech impairment, activity, and participation in children with ...

The present study used a population-based sample of children with cerebral palsy (CP) to estimate the prevalence of motor speech impairment and ...

Intelligence assessments for children with cerebral palsy: a ...

Assessments suitable for children with higher motor involvement and/or communication and/or visual impairment are evaluated. A clinical ...

Cognitive and academic profiles in children with cerebral palsy

Most studies show that intelligence is strongly (but not absolutely) correlated with the degree of motor impairment [5], [49], [50], [51] and also with epilepsy ...

Evaluation of autonomic nervous system in children with spastic ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most prevalent severe motor disability among children. The aim of this work was to assess autonomic dysfunction ...

Systematic cognitive monitoring of children with cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy (CP) is associated with cognitive impairments, learning difficulties and reduced social participation. Individual assessment is necessary for ...

Motor Handicaps in Childhood - SpringerLink

Cerebral palsy, a developmental disability. Syracuse University Press, 1976 ... Assessment and Programming for Young Children with Low-Incidence Handicaps.

Middle Eastern Journal of Disability Studies

Abstract Background & Objective: There is a relatively small body of research on the assessment of the motor performance of children with intellectual ...

Motor-Based Application Process for Cerebral Visual Impairment ...

Additionally, it proposes an application process based on motor functionality for occupational therapists. A total of 288 children with CP were recruited for ...

Observation of Motor Behaviour in the Daily Life of Cerebral Palsied ...

Browder DM (1987) Assessment of individuals with severe handicaps. Brooks, Baltimore; Brown A (1987) Active games for children with movement problems. Harper ...

2. Introduction to cerebral palsy - BCcampus Pressbooks

About 45% of individuals with CP have an Intellectual Disability (ID). Many of those who have CP without ID have some learning differences. As a group, those ...