Search for dissertations about: "motor disability"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 103 swedish dissertations containing the words motor disability.
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16. Reading Development and Reading Disability : Analyses of eye-movements and word recognition
Abstract : The primary ambition of this doctoral thesis is to provide an empirical basis for a better understanding of reading disability among school children. The current consensus in the research community is that most disabled readers fail in the acquisition of fast, accurate and automatic word recognition. READ MORE
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17. Occupation-based evaluation and intervention : validity of the assessment of motor and process skills when used with persons with mental retardation
Abstract : The ability to perform everyday life occupations is a critical component in both evaluation and intervention for persons with mental retardation (MR). While the ability to perform personal and instrumental activities of daily living (ADL) has always been important for occupational therapy (OT) practice, there is an absence in OT literature and research with a focus on ADL and persons with MR. READ MORE
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18. The School Situation of Students with Motor Disabilities : Interaction of individual prerequisites and environmental demands
Abstract : The thesis consists of five scientific articles as well as a framework and is to a great extent based on interviews with students with motor disabilities, their parents and school personnel.The aim of the thesis is to study phenomena such as self-reliance, independence and autonomy, focusing on students of various ages and types of motor disabilities, in varying kinds of segregated and integrated school environments. READ MORE
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19. Motor function and cognition : aspects on gait and balance
Abstract : Introduction: Cognitive dysfunction and dementia are linked to physical disability and are the major cause of dependency and institutionalization in the elderly. Physical therapists deal with disability yet little clinical and research attention has been given to the physical disability experienced in people with cognitive dysfunction. READ MORE
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20. Long-term effects of stroke
Abstract : Stroke, which has an increasing incidence with age, causes an irreversible brain damage which may lead to impairment, disability and decreased life satisfaction or death.Risk factors for death, recurrent stroke and myocardial infarction, were analyzed in 409 stroke patients treated at the Stroke Unit, Department of Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, between Jan. READ MORE