The Role of Gender and Type of Hospitalization in Training Self Care Activities of Preschool Children with Cerebral Palsy
Abstract:
This research is a part of master’s thesis with the main assumption that special education program may affect the ability of manipulative skills and self-care of children with cerebral palsy(Savkovic, 2011).The aim of the research is to determine the effects of individually composed programs to ability of the child for taking food, personal hygiene and dressing/undressing activities, and identification of the correlative relationship between gender and the type of hospitalization, and achievement after the implementation of special education program. The sample was formed of 30 children aged 4 to 7 years for treatment at the Special Hospital for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Neurology at Belgrade and separate protocol, designed specifically for this study was used for evaluation before and after the applied program, which was applied continuously for 12 weeks. On the basis of correlation analysis and by T-test it is confirmed that the program led to improved hand function and its role in prehension and manipulation of objects from everyday life and helped children with cerebral palsy in achieving independence in basic self-care activities.
