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Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsBobath Method

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and... are stabilized, thus allowing for more finitely graded motor activity to be performed by the arms, hands, legs, and feet (distal parts). It is important for the individual to develop Karel Bobath, a neuropsychiatrist, and Berta Bobath, a a more normal postural reflex mechanism so that efficient, physiotherapist, developed an assessment and treatment purposeful actions can increase. The righting and equilib- program in England based on central nervous system rium reactions are the bases of the normal postural reflex (CNS) functioning. Their approach focuses on the whole mechanism. child and is referred to as neurodevelopmental treatment A major emphasis of NDT when employed with chil- (NDT) (Bobath, 1980). dren is that parents and teachers be taught appropriate Central nervous system functioning is regarded as the handling techniques by the therapist with the physician’s basis of all motor functioning. It provides the individual approval. For carryover and integration of new skills to with the ability to perform all posture and movement occur, the same handling procedures used by the therapist tasks, from the most simple to the most highly integrated should be used at home and in the classroom. The Bobath complex ones. The individual is able to maintain the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsBobath Method

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
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9781118660584
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10.1002/9781118660584.ese0351
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are stabilized, thus allowing for more finitely graded motor activity to be performed by the arms, hands, legs, and feet (distal parts). It is important for the individual to develop Karel Bobath, a neuropsychiatrist, and Berta Bobath, a a more normal postural reflex mechanism so that efficient, physiotherapist, developed an assessment and treatment purposeful actions can increase. The righting and equilib- program in England based on central nervous system rium reactions are the bases of the normal postural reflex (CNS) functioning. Their approach focuses on the whole mechanism. child and is referred to as neurodevelopmental treatment A major emphasis of NDT when employed with chil- (NDT) (Bobath, 1980). dren is that parents and teachers be taught appropriate Central nervous system functioning is regarded as the handling techniques by the therapist with the physician’s basis of all motor functioning. It provides the individual approval. For carryover and integration of new skills to with the ability to perform all posture and movement occur, the same handling procedures used by the therapist tasks, from the most simple to the most highly integrated should be used at home and in the classroom. The Bobath complex ones. The individual is able to maintain the

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