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

Dynamic Systems Theory: A Framework for Exploring Readiness to Change in Children with Cerebral Palsy

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

Sensory Integration: A Review of the Current State of the Evidence

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 Technology to Improve Movement in Children with Physical Impairments

What Adolescents with Disabilities Want in Life

What Makes Parents Satisfied with Rehab Service