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Therapies > Physical
Physical Therapy for Children with Special Needs: A Complete Parent's Guide
...reducing falls, improving stability, and helping kids navigate uneven surfaces Gait training: teaching or improving walking patterns, often...falls, improving stability, and helping kids navigate uneven surfaces Gait training: teaching or improving walking patterns, often...
Assistive Tech > Hardware
Robotic-Assited Therapy for Cerebral Palsy
...robot-assistive technology for gait training. Researchers hope...robot-assistive technology for gait training. Researchers hope to find the...engagement in walking and gait training helps stimulate and...engagement in walking and gait training helps stimulate and train the...through eight weeks of Lokomat training, take six weeks rest, followed...
Therapies > Occupational
Interactive Metronome Therapy
"The Interactive Metronome (IM) is a research-based training program that helps children and adults overcome attention, memory, and coordination...Positive outcomes in focus, attention, speech, language, reading, coordination, gait, and balance can come about through Interactive Metronome therapy. IM...
Special Needs > Cerebral Palsy
Hip Surveillance for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Parent's Guide to the Monitoring Schedule
...watching more closely or discussing intervention. Without monitoring, hip displacement can progress silently. By the time a child is in pain or has visible gait changes, the hip may have migrated significantly, narrowing the window for less invasive options like physical therapy adjustments, bracing, or muscle...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Adaptive Equipment for Cerebral Palsy: A Complete Guide by Age
...equipment recommendations within the first year. By the time a child is five, the list can include a car seat insert, a floor sitter, AFO orthotics, a gait trainer, a standing frame, and the beginnings of a wheelchair conversation. The natural response to that volume is overwhelm, followed by a question...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Gait Trainers for Children: When Walkers Aren't Enough
...with a referral for something called a gait trainer. The prescription lists a model,...two devices do differently. What a Gait Trainer Does. A standard walker gives...the walker in a controlled rhythm. A gait trainer does something the standard...for the actual work of stepping. The gait trainer removes that...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Our Special Lives – Annabel
...started hippopotherapy. "The idea is, when you sit on a horse, your pelvis and your body moves the way that it does when you walk because the horse's gait helps your body, teaching your body muscle memory," explains Sarah....
Education > Early Intervention
Activities for Kids: Rhythm and Movement
...pulse is important for children, and enhancing movement activities with music is a great way to get kids motivated. Steady pulses encourage a regular gait. Children can clap or play an instrument to the beat to reinforce that rhythm. Rhythms also help establish routines, and...
Special Needs > Rare Disorders
What is Angelman Syndrome?
...As a child develops, common symptoms of Angelman Syndrome include: Severe developmental delays Movement or balance disorder — ataxia or awkward gait, unsteadiness, jerky limbs Speech impairment — few or no words, receptive and non-verbal communication more advanced than verbal Excitable personality...