The Evaluation of Functional, School-Based Therapy Services for Children with Special Needs

Exploring the comparative responsiveness of a core set of outcome measures in a school‐based conductive education programme

“…Therefore, Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) (Kiresuk et al . 1994); King et al . 1998) was introduced in Year 2 to measure individualized goals developed by the parents and team.…”

Evaluation of Occupational Therapy School-Based Consultation Service for Students with Fine Motor Difficulties

“…In addition, collaborative efforts were found to have positive impacts on goal achievements (Kemmis & Dunn, 1996) and to be associated with teachers' increased perception of occupational therapists contributing to student skill development (Barnes & Turner, 2001). Canadian studies showed that teachers preferred collaboration (Fairbairn & Knowles, 1993), mobility issues were the main reason for occupational therapy service for students with physical disabilities (Pollock & Stewart, 1998), and a mixed treatment approach provided by a multidisciplinary team made a difference in school functioning of students with special needs (King et al, 1999).…”

Systematic review of early intervention programmes for children from birth to nine years who have a physical disability

“…Therapy sessions averaged 45 min in length. King et al, 1999 Interrupted time-series study 50 children (and parents and teachersunknown numbers) with CP (52%), fine motor difficulties (20%), SB (4%), speech-language delays (4%) and other conditions (20%) aged 5-12 years.…”