Sökning: "childs motor skills"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden childs motor skills.
1. One more time! : parents' and habilitation teams' conceptions of conductive education and support to children with motor disabilities
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation has been to increase the knowledge about support to children with CP injuries and to find out what they and their families need, expect, desire and can hope to receive. The aim is also to describe conductive education and investigate what ideas and experiences children, parents and habilitation staff have of it. LÄS MER
2. To get things done, the challenge in everyday life for children with spina bifida. Quality of performance, autonomy and participation
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to increase knowledge of the quality of performance of everyday activities, autonomy and participation in children with spina bifida (SB) and to explore how they relate to each other. Methods: In Study I, the quality of performance of everyday activities in 50 children with SB (of the 65 in a population-based cohort) aged 6 to14 years was assessed with the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). LÄS MER
3. Everyday functioning in six year-old children born preterm : From a child perspective towards the child's perspective
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the thesis was to explore everyday functioning in six year-old children born preterm, from the children’s perspectives and from their parents’ perspectives. The relation between everyday functioning and neonatal risk factors, behavioural characteristics was studied with descriptive and correlational statistics, ANOVA and multiple linear regression (I). LÄS MER
4. Problems of language and communication in children; Identification and intervention
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses identification and intervention of language and communication problems in children. The issue of identification is addressed in study I by investigating communicative ability in 18-month-old children, and in study II by exploring the prevalence of language and communication problems in children with complex problems, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). LÄS MER
5. Assessment and differential diagnosis in childhood apraxia of speech
Sammanfattning : Introduction and aims: Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a disorder of speech motor planning and programming affecting the ability to transform the linguistic code into movements needed for intelligible speech. CAS is difficult to differential diagnose from other speech sound disorders (SSDs) and the diagnostic procedure involves many decisions based on outcomes from assessments before arriving at the appropriate diagnosis/es. LÄS MER