Muscle weakness is commonly seen in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and can impact on their activities and participation in daily life situations.
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Understanding the Values, Priorities, and World Views of Families Raising Children with Chronic Developmental Conditions
This three-year study will look at how parenting a child with a disability affects family values, priorities, and views of their place in the world.
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Working Together for Change: The Role of Families in Generating, Using and Transmitting Knowledge in Higher Education and Research
Children, youth and young adults with disabilities and their families currently play a crucial role in changing the attitudes and expectations of their neighbours, those in the helping professions and public policy makers.
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Use of the Gross Motor Function Classification System to Optimize Rehabilitation Management of Children with Cerebral Palsy
The GMFCS is a standardized system to classify gross motor function of children with CP aged 12 months to 12 years based on observation of a child’s self-initiated movement and need for assistive technology and/or wheeled mobility.
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Transition to Adulthood Services and Supports for Youth with Disabilities in Ontario: Best Practice Guidelines
There are currently no best practice guidelines in Canada for service planning and delivery that address the transition to adulthood for youth with disabilities. This “In Brief” highlights the recommendations from a research study which used an evidence-based approach to develop such guidelines for services and supports in Ontario.
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What helps adolescents with cerebral palsy to be physically active? Developing a program to support youth based on focus groups.
In this communication we want to share our study protocol as part of a program to support physical activity for youth with cerebral palsy (CP) using a focus group methodology.
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Working Together for Change: The role of Community Faculty in education and research
The purpose of the Working Together for Change Project was to influence the thinking and behaviour of researchers, educators and students in post secondary educational settings.
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Transitions experienced by children and their families after acquired brain injury
What are the factors that influence transitions to home, school and community / recreational activities for the school-aged child with an acquired brain injury (ABI)?
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Transition to Adulthood with Cyber guide Evaluation (TRACE)
Consistent with best practice guidelines for transition developed in Ontario, the study seeks ways to improve health service delivery to youth in transition and, in so doing, to address this important contemporary health challenge.
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Transition to an Adult Doctor: 5 Tips for Success
Consistent with best practice guidelines for transition developed in Ontario, the study seeks ways to improve health service delivery to youth in transition and, in so doing, to address this important contemporary health challenge.
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