Category Evidence

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] Our last posting was an infographic summary of a clinical practice guideline from the European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD). That provided a synthesis of current developmental coordination disorder (DCD) research with effective practices to employ. This posting builds on… 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 →

[smbtoolbar] Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a diagnosis that has gained attention since I graduated from physical therapy school. It was not covered in my curriculum. So I feel like I am playing catchup and thought some of you might… 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 →

[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 →

[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 →