Author Carlo Vialu
[smbtoolbar] Are you thinking of creating a resource to help families navigate the IEP process and whether their child needs school-based therapy? Need a topic and a handout for an in-service training you were asked to conduct with teachers and… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] Happy back-to-school to you and your students! As the school year starts, OTs, PTs and SLPs can utilize their expertise to collaborate with teachers in designing a classroom environment that promotes learning and that addresses the need of every… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] About a month ago, I was contacted by Dr. Vanesa Abuin, a SeekFreak from Madrid. Dr. Abuin is a PT and researcher from Grupo de Investigación en Dolor Musculoesquelético y Control Motor, Universidad Europea. SeekFreaks has reached Spain, and… Continue Reading →
Whether this is your first job after graduation, or you are an experienced therapist who is just now entering school-based practice, you are about to step into a new territory. Welcome to school-based practice and to SeekFreaks! Allow us to make… Continue Reading →
The author, Carlo Vialu, PT, MBA, is co-creator of SeekFreaks. He loves promoting function and participation for children and youth with disabilities, from our assessment to our interventions, via his courses on various assessment tools at Apply EBP. More information… Continue Reading →
Written by Carlo Vialu, PT, MBA, co-creator of SeekFreaks. He loves promoting function and participation for children and youth with disabilities, from our assessment to our interventions, via his continuing education courses: The Well-Equipped Therapist! School-based OT & PT Symposiums,… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] The clinical practice guideline for developmental coordination disorder (DCD) created by the European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD) has been helpful in synthesizing research on DCD from diagnosis to interventions. Reading it, however, takes a lot of grit. We thought… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] On May 22, 2001, the World Health Assembly approved the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). It was a significant move in the right direction from the previous ICD model. Finally, the focus is on an individual’s… Continue Reading →
The author, Carlo Vialu, PT, MBA, is co-creator of SeekFreaks. He loves promoting function and participation for children and youth with disabilities, from our assessment to our interventions, via his courses on various assessment tools at Apply EBP. More information… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] Quantitative studies are often seen as scientific and unbiased, but have also been criticized for being controlling and limited, forcing behaviors into specific quantifiable categories. On the other hand, qualitative studies “capture life as it is lived”, but has… Continue Reading →
The author, Carlo Vialu, PT, Mhttps://www.applyebp.com/instructors/carlo-vialu-pt-mba/BA, is co-creator of SeekFreaks. He loves promoting function and participation for children and youth with disabilities, from our assessment to our interventions, via his and his colleague’s continuing education courses with Apply EBP. More… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] Happy New Year, SeekFreaks! Fitness has always been at the top of many new year’s resolutions. As school-based practitioners, we should have the same resolution for our students with disabilities, and help make it happen. So, we start the… Continue Reading →
The author, Carlo Vialu, PT, MBA, is co-creator of SeekFreaks. He loves promoting function and participation for children and youth with disabilities, from our assessment to our interventions, via his courses on various assessment tools at Apply EBP. More information… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] This article caught my eye since it is relevant to our recent post on the the 4 Pillars of PT Assessments. The investigators in this study wanted to determine whether dynamic balance is related to age, gender and anthropometrics measurements that include… Continue Reading →
The author, Carlo Vialu, PT, MBA, is co-creator of SeekFreaks. He loves promoting function and participation for children and youth with disabilities, from our assessment to our interventions, via his continuing education courses: Train the Brain!, Everything’s Measurable! and The… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] Hi, SeekFreaks! In line with our discussion of supporting teachers via Response to Intervention (RtI) and the role of school-based physical therapists as advocates for students with disabilities, we are reviewing an article that explored the knowledge of teachers on the impact… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] Understanding the importance of the GMFCS, a group of doctors, professor, OTs and PT in Sweden developed the Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) “to classify how children with cerebral palsy use their hands to handle objects in daily life.”… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] Many of our students with disabilities will one day become adults with disabilities. How much physical activities do the students with disabilities you work with currently engage in? What is their commitment to lifelong fitness goals? Rowland et al… Continue Reading →
[smbtoolbar] “Physical therapy means services provided by a qualified physical therapist.”[1] Yes, SeekFreaks, that is how IDEA defines physical therapy. No wonder questions abound about the role of PTs in the school setting. The vagueness of the definition opens up… Continue Reading →
