August 2005

What's New at CanChild?

Measures of Participation: CAPE and PAC
The Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and the Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC) are two companion measures of children's participation. Both are self-report measures of children's participation in recreation and leisure activities outside of mandated school activities. The CAPE and PAC are packaged together and are available through Harcourt Assessment, Inc.

Grant Funding
Moving research into practice: A unique Canadian research opportunity --- The Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy has awarded CanChild a grant to support the redesign of CanChild's website and continued development of the CanChild Intranet (a national resource for service providers and researchers). A newly designed website is expected to be in operation in early 2006. If you have any feedback or ideas for our website redesign, please contact Geoff Johnston.

Establishing valid criteria for classification of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in children --- The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation has awarded funding to Carol DeMatteo, Steve Hanna, and colleagues to establish criteria for classification of mild TBI in children. This study will involve secondary analyses of the data collected in the ABI Transitions study.

Keyboarding Resource for School-Age Children
The use of a computer or word processor is often suggested as an alternative strategy to writing for children with coordination difficulties.

This resource, "To write or to type - That is the question!", reviews some of the things that parents and teachers need to think about when considering teaching children how to keyboard.
"To write or to type - That is the question!"

Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) - French Translations
French translations of resources for teachers about children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) have been posted on our website. These resources provide strategies to help children with DCD participate to their full potential in school activities.

• JK / SK
• Grade 1/2
• Grade 3/4
• Grade 5/6
• Grade 7/8

Participate Study - Final Report to Families and Community Partners
This report provides an overview of a three year study of the leisure and recreational activities of over 400 school age children and youth with physical disabilities in Ontario, Canada. This study examined factors related to the child, the family, and the environment that influence the leisure and recreational participation of children and youth with physical disabilities. Click here for full report

…Child: Care, Health & Development
Deb Stewart, Mary Law, Dianne Russell, and Steve Hanna, co-authored an article titled "Evaluating children's rehabilitation services: An application of a programme logic model." This article describes a study in which a programme logic model was applied to evaluate the effectiveness of a new therapy service for children with special needs who were in transition from pre-school to kindergarten. It is available in the September 2004 issue (vol. 30, 453-62).

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