BACKGROUND Cerebral palsy presents with a range of severity of cognitive, motor, and sensory disabilities, which might affect survival. AIMS To quantify the effects of motor, cognitive, and sensory disabilities, year of birth, birth weight, and gestational age on survival in cerebral palsy. METHODS A cohort of children with cerebral palsy born between 1966 and 1989 to mothers resident in a ...

Developmental dyslexia is a heterogeneous syndrome with a phonological core deficit and frequent association with other developmental disorders. Controversies exist about the influence of motor difficulties frequently encountered in dyslexia. According to different theoretical approaches, these motor impairments would reflect either a frequent co-morbid entity or a cerebellar dysfunction that c...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine whether four socioeconomic factors, namely caregiver age, caregiver education, family income and/or household size were related to the presence of motor delays or unintelligible speech in South African children with intellectual disabilities. METHODS Caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities completed a biographical questionnaire ...

The serum albumin level is a widely accepted indicator of nutritional status in healthy adults and elderly individuals. However, there are few data regarding the distribution and correlates of serum albumin levels in individuals with intellectual and/or motor disabilities. We conducted a cross-sectional study at a public facility for individuals with intellectual and/or motor disabilities in Ib...

This study investigated the efficacy of a virtual reality-based cognitive and motor coordination training for people with intellectual and multiple disabilities, focusing on community participation. Ten people with disabilities were selected from an institutional care for people with disabilities and they were enrolled in a five-week experiment, which consisted in shopping in a virtual reality ...

We examined the psychometric properties (internal consistency, concurrent criterion validity, and known-group validity) of the Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA) in people with intellectual disabilities. A total of 111 people with intellectual disabilities and 19 people with no disabilities were included. We used Cronbach's alpha, Spearman's rho, the Kruskal-Wallis te...

ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Hussein ZA, Abdel-Aty SA, Elmeniawey GH. Sensory-based motor processing in children with specific learning disabilities. Physiotherapy Quarterly. 2023;31(1):95-99. doi:10.5114/pq.2023.115855. APA Hussein, Z. A., Abdel-Aty, S. & Elmeniawey, G. H. (2023). Quarterly, 31(1), 95-99. https://doi.org/10.5114/pq.2023.1158...