Joystick-Operated Ride-On Toys as a Therapy Adjunct for a Child With Hemiplegia: A Case Report
Ride-on toys are versatile, easy-to-operate, family-friendly tools that can be used across a variety of naturalistic settings. Intervention programs using joystick-operated ride-on toys may be used to create intrinsically motivating training opportunities to encourage children with UCP to spontaneously use their affected UE for task-oriented sensorimotor exploration of their physical environment and improve movement control in the affected UE.
Authors
- Patrick D. Kumavor
- Kathleen M. Friel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9538-9228)
- Vaishnavi Shahane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5392-6893)
- Kristin D. Morgan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5803-2107)
- Sudha Srinivasan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4594-2547)
Institutions
- Cornell University (US)
- Burke Medical Research Institute (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Physical Therapy
- Published
- 2025-06-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/pep.0000000000001209
- Primary Topic
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00