Behavior Therapy Combined with Physical Therapy to Promote Walker Use by a Child with Multiple Handicaps.

Strawbridge, Leigh A.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ399097

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1989

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Behavior Therapy Combined with Physical Therapy to Promote Walker Use by a Child with Multiple Handicaps.

Strawbridge, Leigh A.; And Others

Education and Training in Mental Retardation, v24 n3 p239-47 Sep 1989

The article describes a training program which effectively taught a profoundly retarded and blind nine-year-old boy to use a walker. One year follow-up indicated maintenance of treatment gains. Ambulation training was correlated with a significant reduction in stereotypic behavior. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Blindness, Case Studies, Children, Maintenance, Multiple Disabilities, Physical Therapy, Severe Mental Retardation, Training Methods, Visually Handicapped Mobility

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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