Early HABIT-ILE: Hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy including lower extremities
About the Study
What is it?
Using games and functional activities, HABIT-ILE is an intensive training of bimanual activities, inferior limbs and/or postural control stimulation. Developed in 2011 at the Clinical University of Louvain (Belgium) under the direction of Prof. Yannick Bleyenheuft, HABIT-ILE proved its efficacy to improve motor function and autonomy for children aged 6-18 years old and has already demonstrated good results in a pilot study for children aged 1-4 years old.
This therapy is based on motor-skill learning theory, the same method that everybody use to learn how to drive or how to become an athlete: short-time intensive practice (50hours in 2 weeks), repetition of active movement and increase of difficulty in a playful context that motivate the child and focuses on functional activities that parent/child defined before the therapy.
Each child have the same therapist(s) with him/her during the entire therapy period.
The therapy is part of an european research protocol that aims to evaluate the effects of early HABIT-ILE for children aged 1 to 4 years old.
Contact: Gessica Tealdi gtealdi@fsm.unipi.it
Julie Paradis jparadis@fsm.unipi.it
Andrea Guzzetta
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