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Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy and Gait Characteristics
In a recent issue of Disability and Rehabilitation there was research published on an intervention using modified constraint induced movement therapy (mCIMT) wtih 12 preschool children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. The intervention consisted of mCIMT for 5 consecutive days at 6 hours per day. Following the experiment, the data was analyzed revealing a significant decrease […]
Including All Children on the Playground
The American Journal of Occupational Therapy published research in 2008 on children’s interaction on the school playground. Twenty children were videotaped for 11 weeks on a school playground. The children participated in extended recess with loose parts or materials such as bicycle tires, hay bales, fabric, trash can lids, strips of foam and more. Following […]
Mother’s Touch Effects on Brain Development
Recent research published in the Journal of Neuroscience, indicates that a mother’s touch not only provides security, comfort and love but also cognitive function and stress reduction. This study was performed using rats. The results indicated that “sensory stimuli from maternal care can modify the gene that controls a key messenger of stress called corticotropin-releasing […]
Fine Motor Skills & Visual Peceptual Skills Activity Video
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Early Childhood TV Watching and Effects Later in Life
The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine published research on television watching at 2 and 4 years of age and its effects when the children are 10 years of age. Parents reported how much television was watched during the early years. Parents and teachers also reported on academic, psychosocial, and health behaviors and body mass […]
Grip in Children with Congential Hemiplegia
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair published research comparing predictive and reactive control of grip force in children with congenital hemiplegia. The precision grip of 12 children (ages 10-16 years) with hemiplegia were compared to a control group in two different conditions – predictive and reactive. For the predictive control, the child triggered the drop of an […]
Digital Magazine for pediatric Occupational and Physical Therapy May 2010
If you can not view the magazine below go to YourTherapySource.com to download a copy. Open publication – Free publishing – More cerebral palsy
Hand Clapping Games and Motor Abilities
Would you like children to have neater handwriting, write better and have better spelling? A recent study suggests teaching hand clapping games to children to improve motor and academic abilities. For ten weeks, two groups of children, at different elementary schools, participated in either a music appreciation program or hand clapping songs training. According to […]
Self Regulation and Academic Abilities
More research is being published in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly on self regulation skills in young children. The researchers studied 1298 children from birth through first grade. After controlling for at risk factors such as ethnic minority status, low maternal education, low family income and chronic depressive symptoms in the mother, children with strong […]
Disadvantaged Preschoolers Exhibit Gross Motor Delays
Two recent studies report that disadvantaged preschoolers exhibit gross motor delays on the Test of Gross Motor Development – 2. Goodway et. al. reported in the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Science that 86% of Midwestern and southwestern preschoolers were delayed in locomotor and object control skills (Woodward and Yun report in Early Child Development […]