| Description |
This full-day pre-conference course is designed for clinicians,researchers, and students concerned with understanding and promoting functional motor behavior. The material is accessible to participants at all levels of instruction.
Effective clinical practice requires insights into the nature of functional motor behavior in the natural everyday environment, but this knowledge has proven elusive for clinicians and researchers.
This course will:
(1) provide a conceptual framework for understanding motor behavior as part of a changing, developing system;
(2) illustrate the power of video—alone and in combination with other technologies—to capture the richness and complexity of behavior and the critical details of the surrounding context; and
(3) describe tools for annotating video to quantify changes in behavior in real time and over development. Although the examples focus primarily on typically developing infants and children,the material is relevant for healthy and clinical populations across the lifespan. Overall, this course will benefit participants by expanding their ability to understand, capture,and quantify functional motor behavior.
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