‘Hemiplegia’, ‘hemiparesis’, or ‘unilateral’ CP affects the movement and muscle tone on one side of the body, although often the other side of the body may be affected to a lesser extent.2 It is the most common form of CP.
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Occupational Therapy Role in the School: Partnering for Change Model
Occupational therapists (OTs) are regulated health care professionals who work with children in a variety of settings, including schools.
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Children with Disabilities in Ontario: A Profile of Children’s Services (FCS-II)
This cross-sectional survey has been conducted as a follow-up to a study of family-centred service implementation in Ontario during the early 1990’s.
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Children with disabilities in Ontario: A profile of children’s services.
Part 1: Children, families and services, Part 2: Perceptions about family-centred service delivery for children with disabilities and Part 3: Factors affecting family-centred service delivery for children with disabilities.
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Respite Services: A Critical Review of the Literature
Families of children with special needs often require a number of services to enhance the health, well-being and life quality of their child and family.
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Developing All About Outcomes, Part 2: Rehabilitation outcomes: From research into practice, making new knowledge available to service providers.
The availability of valid outcome measures and the development of techniques for individualized measures has increased over the past few years.
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Welcome Home Project: Functional outcomes, perception of care and cost for children and youth receiving home and community-based occupational therapy services
This project is designed to examine how functional outcomes, perception of care and cost are each influenced by the service delivery characteristics of home care occupational therapy (OT).
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Developing Service Provision Models for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
Early identification, assessment and intervention need to happen during the preschool years to help children with DCD develop pre-academic skills, facilitate transition into school and prevent the development of secondary problems.
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Effectiveness of Occupational Therapy In the School Environment
The provision of occupational therapy services to students in the school system continues to be a growing area of pediatric practice in Ontario, through the School Health Support Services (SHSS) Programme, and elsewhere across Canada and the United States under varying service delivery and funding models.
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Alternative And Complementary Therapies Casts, Splints, and Orthoses – Lower Extremity
Support for the research to conduct this review comes from a grant from The EconoEconomical Insurancemical Insurance Group
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