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A Comparison of the Balance and Gait among Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome and Typically Developing Children

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2018, 19(1), pp.49-64
  • DOI : 10.19049/JSPED.2018.19.1.03
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : February 7, 2018
  • Accepted : March 13, 2018
  • Published : March 31, 2018

Jeong, Hee-Gyeong 1 Chung eun jung 2 LEE, BYOUNGHEE 1

1삼육대학교
2안동과학대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to compare the balance and gait of cerebral palsy, Down syndrome children and typically developing children. The subjects were 20 children with cerebral palsy, 16 children with down syndrome, 20 children with typically developing, 56 children participated in studies. One Leg Test, Romberg’s test(eye open/eye close), Sharpened Romberg’s test(eye open/eye close), Functional reaching test, and GAIRTRite were used for this study in order to measure children’s balance ability and gait ability. One leg standing, Romberg’s test, sharpened Romberg’s test of static balance showed significant differences among three groups(p<.05). functional reaching test of dynamic balance showed significant differences among three groups(p<.05). Velocity, cadence of temporal gait parameters and step length, stride length, step width of spatial gait parameters showed significant differences among three groups(p<.05). The results showed that there were a significant difference in balance and gait among the three groups, and higher balance and gait function in order of typically developing children, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome children.

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