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Keeping Current
'Keeping Currents' provide an overview of what is known about a topic related to children with disabilities and their families. The topics are often based on a "hot" issue in children's rehabilitation and the need for a 'Keeping Current' may come from questions that CanChild receives from parents and service providers. The purpose of these documents is to provide an objective review of the issue, with the goal of moving the field of childhood disability forward. As such, 'Keeping Currents' present a summary of research evidence from the literature and they may include opinions from experts in the field. The following is a list of our 'Keeping Currents'.
Alternative Treatments: Thoughts from the Trenches
Alternative Treatment for Children: Controversies
Alternative Treatment for Children: Evidence
An Update on Constraint Therapy in Children with Hemiplegia
Applying the WHO's ICF in Childhood Disability
Assessing Language in Young Children
Assessing Quality of Life: Measures for Children
Casts, Splints, and Orthoses for Lower Extremity
Casts, Splints, and Orthoses for Upper Extremity
Child Attributes: Effect on Intervention Decisions
Disability and Child Development: Integrating the Concepts
Effectiveness of OT in the School Environment
Enhancing Adaptive Function of Children with CP
Evidence of the Effectiveness of Strengthening for Children with CP
Feeding Interventions for Children with ABI
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Hot or Not?
Impact of the Environment on Children with CP
Knowledge Brokering in Health Care
Knowledge Transfer in Health Care
Participation of Children with Complex Needs
Respite Services: A Review of the Literature
The Concept of 'Quality of Life' in Health Care
The "Key Worker" Model of Service Delivery
Use of Botox in Children with Muscle Stiffness
Use of the GMFCS to Optimize Rehab. Management
Use of Virtual Reality Techonology to Improve Movement in Children with Physical Impairments
