title: Technology-aided programs to support exercise of adaptive head responses or leg-foot and hands responses in children with multiple disabilities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Assessing the effectiveness of technology-aided programs to help three children with multiple disabilities exercise adaptive head or leg-foot and hands responses independently.
  
  
  METHODS
  The response selected for the two children included in Study I was head rotation (i.e. movements of at least 25 degrees to the left that could start from a full right position as well as from other positions). The responses selected for the child included in Study II involved forward movement of the left leg-foot and forward movement of his hand(s) to touch objects. Tilt or optic microswitches were used to monitor the responses and a computer system regulated the stimuli contingent on them.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The responses targeted in the two studies showed large frequency increases during the intervention phases of the studies (i.e. when followed by stimulation).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Technology-aided programs can be a useful resource to help children with multiple disabilities exercise relevant responses independently.
authors: Department of Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. g.lancioni@psico.uniba.it
authors: Giulio E
authors: GE
authors: Lancioni
authors: Mark F
authors: MF
authors: O'Reilly
authors: Nirbhay N
authors: NN
authors: Singh
authors: Vanessa A
authors: VA
authors: Green
authors: Doretta
authors: D
authors: Oliva
authors: Francesca
authors: F
authors: Campodonico
authors: Russell
authors: R
authors: Lang
authors: Serafino
authors: S
authors: Buono
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000151:congenital / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000503:physiopathology; D006225:Hand / Q000503:physiopathology; D006257:Head / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D012656:Self-Help Devices