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Early Physical Therapy Intervention For A Child With Williams-Beuren's Syndrome And Presenting With Icf Model For Individual Activity And Participation: A Casereport, Shin-Mei Liu, Feng-Yin Lien, Shin-Tsu Chang, Heng-Yi Chu Dec 2013

Early Physical Therapy Intervention For A Child With Williams-Beuren's Syndrome And Presenting With Icf Model For Individual Activity And Participation: A Casereport, Shin-Mei Liu, Feng-Yin Lien, Shin-Tsu Chang, Heng-Yi Chu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Williams-Beuren's syndrome (W-B syndrome) is one of the genetic diseases, often comes with cardiovascular disease, abnormality of facial and teeth structure, poor motor control, delayed development of cognition and spatial sense. Here we present one child with W-B syndrome who underwent early intervention since she was 7 months old. After 20-month training, the child has made impressive progress in motor function and abilities of carrying ADL. Furthermore, by giving the parents instructions and guidelines for home programs, the relationship between the child and her parents also improved a lot. As the matter of fact, this casereport showed that the early …


Early Intervention Provider Use Of Child Caregiver-Teaching Strategies, Philippa Campbell, Phd, Catherine Ehret-Coletti, Ms Sep 2013

Early Intervention Provider Use Of Child Caregiver-Teaching Strategies, Philippa Campbell, Phd, Catherine Ehret-Coletti, Ms

Department of Occupational Therapy Faculty Papers

Most current early intervention approaches emphasize the importance of a provider role as teacher or coach, a role in which providers give parents or other caregivers information about how to optimize children’s growth and development (Stremel & Campbell, 2007). However, few studies have examined the information that should be provided for caregivers or how this information is best delivered to caregivers although a number of rating scales are able to distinguish between roles of direct service provider for the child (e.g., traditional) and triadic interaction among provider, caregiver, and child (Campbell & Sawyer, 2007; Salisbury & Cushing, 2013). Related factors …