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Spasticity and Gross Motor Function
Spasticity levels were measured using the Modified Tardieu Scale in 50 children with cerebral palsy (GMFCS I-V)aged 18 months. The children followed for one year and gross motor function was assessed with the GMFM-66. The researchers concluded that spasticity has a small relationship with gross motor function but other factors also need to be considered. […]
Great Video on “Extreme Recess” for Kids with Disabilities
Extreme Recess! Summer 09 For Health Week from Abby Kritzler on Vimeo.
Twitter for Therapists
Twitter is an excellent platform to learn about: therapy ideas, therapy practices all over the world, research, assistive technology and more. Many people use to twitter to enhance their personal learning network (PLN). For those of you who are new to Twitter it is a short messaging service where you can follow other peoples messages […]
Navigate Web with Keyboard
Key Surf was released by CanAssist in June 2009. It allows users to navigate the web using they keyboard instead of a mouse. It also remembers your web history making it faster to use each time. This free download may be helpful to any client who is unable to use a mouse. It is compatible […]
Visual Motor, Eye Hand Coordination and Handwriting
The Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools and Early Intervention published research on 75 second graders who were evaluated using the Concise Assessment Scale for Children’s Handwriting, the Developmental Test of Visual Perception-2 and the manual dexterity section of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children. Results indicated that visual motor integration and eye hand coordination are […]
September 2009 Pediatric OT and PT Digital Magazine
Open publication – Free publishing – More cerebral palsy
Life with Autism
This booklet is very informative for any therapists, school staff and parents to help understand the every day life of a person with Asperger’s. Open publication – Free publishing – More 09
NDT, SI or Perceptual Motor Approach for Children with Mild MR
The American Journal of Occupational Therapy published research on the effects of neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT), sensory integrative therapy (SI) and perceptual motor (PM) therapy for children with mild mental retardation. One hundred sixty children were randomly assigned to one of four groups: NDT group, SI group, PM group and control group. After interventions, the three […]
Predictive Value of Motor Evaluations
In a study published by Early Human Development, researchers studied the predictive values in very preterm children and small for gestational age of the Psychomotor Developmental Index (PDI) of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development and the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (PDMS). The researchers concluded that for very low birth weight children, the PDI and […]
Hot, hot, hot! Water obstacle course
Here is an example of a water obstacle course that you can create with your client or child. Therapy does not get any more fun than this. This activity encourages gross motor skills, muscle strengthening, eye hand coordination, trunk rotation, crossing midline, balance and motor planning. Whew! That is a lot of developmental play with […]