Author summary on stakeholder perspectives of pediatric powered wheelchair standing devices.
It is important to understand how spasticity can impact the muscles and the know what treatments are available to help.
Early powered mobility has been shown to improve cognition in children with multiple, complex disabilities.
Spasticity is usually caused by central nervous system injuries, such as brain injuries or spinal cord injuries. Spasticity is a little different from stiffness.
Let me tell you about multimodal communication. We, as typical communicators, all use many different strategies. We use speech, gestures, facial expressions, technology, and no-tech solutions. As communicators, we all size up the situation based upon our communication partners, the context, the environment and then we choose to use the most effective communication strategy.