Personal informatics (PI) has become an area of significant research over the past decade, maturing into a sub-field that seeks to support people from many backgrounds and life contexts in collecting finding value their personal data. PI includes focus on with chronic conditions as monolithic group, but currently fails distinguish needs motor disabilities (MD). To understand how current literat...

This chapter discusses Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for individuals with motor disabilities. Motor disabilities do not only affect movement, but very often also affect speech. In these cases where voice is very weak, speech is unintelligible, or motor problems in the human speech production systems do not allow a person to speak, AAC is introduced. Aided and unaided communic...

This presentation will provide a scientific overview of current and perhaps future therapeutic (re)habilitation strategies for individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). The entire field of neurorehabilitation is experiencing tremendous change and excitement that is spilling over into pediatric rehabilitation. Evidence has been accumulating in recent years that strongly supports the role of therapis...

Assessing the driving abilities of individuals with disabilities is often a very challenging task because each medical condition is accompanied by physical impairments and because relative individual functional performance may vary depending on personal characteristics.We identified existing driving evaluation modalities for able-bodied and lower extremity-impaired subjects (spinal cord injury ...

background: parents of children with developmental problems are always bearing a load of stress. the aim of this study is to compare the stress in mothers of children with different disabilities to each other, considering their demographic background. materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study conducted in isfahan, iran during 2012 on 285 mothers of 6-12 years old children with chr...

The article deals with the classification of adaptive clothing, presents main requirements for design, technology and materials. conducted analytical study showed that special clothing people motor disabilities as a tool medical social rehabilitation are higher than those healthy people. leading role materials in shaping quality is established. authors identify systematise design features consi...

Fetal low brain oxygenation may be an outcome of maternal complications during pregnancy and is associated with increased risk of cerebral palsy and periventricular leukomalacia in newborns. One treatment used for prevention of fetal brain damage is maternal treatment with MgSO(4). Although this treatment is indicated to reduce the risk of cerebral palsy in newborns, its use remains controversi...

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence and co-occurrence of disabilities and their association with parental education in preterm children and term control subjects. STUDY DESIGN In a prospective study, preterm children (n=104), born at <30 weeks' gestation or birth weight <1000 g, and term children (n=95) were assessed at corrected age 5 with an intelligence quotient (IQ) test, behavior quest...