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Small Grant Award Program Discontinued
The NDTA Small Grant Award program has been discontinued with plans for a new Research Consultation Initiative underway. Check back later this year for additional information.
2007-2008 Small Grant Award
The NDTA is pleased to announce that Kathy Dieruf, PhD, is the recipient of the 2007-2008 NDTA Small Grant Award. Ms. Dieruf will be using the award funds to conduct a study titled “The Effect of the GivMohr Sling on Gait in Subjects with Hemiplegia” <READ MORE
2006 Small Grant Award
The NDTA is pleased to announce that Gay Girolami, PT, MS, is the recipient of the 2005-2006 NDTA Small Grant Award. Ms. Girolami will be using the award funds to conduct a study titled “Comparison of Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in Children with Cerebral Palsy and Their Non-disabled Peers” in conjunction with Alexander Aruin, PhD. The study will be conducted over the next year at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The aim of the study is to increase knowledge of the anticipatory (feedforward) postural adjustments used by children with cerebral palsy and typically developing children to counteract self-generated motions that disturb balance. The study will focus on the postural adjustments necessary to maintain balance during activities such as catching, throwing, reaching, and arm swinging. The study hypothesis is that children with cerebral palsy will exhibit anticipatory postural adjustments during the activities, but that the patterns and amount of muscle recruitment will be different and/or more variable than those of typically developing children of the same age and gender. This study is designed to serve as a foundation for the development and refinement of interventions to improve balance and postural control in children with cerebral palsy.
The NDTA Small Grant Award program was started 1990. The grant program is designed to fund research that supports the development of NDT-related interventions or theory. The maximum amount awarded per study is $5000 with the hope that these smaller studies will lead to larger amounts of research funding from other sources.
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Congratulations to Ms. Girolami! Use this link to read all about the current status of this project. NDTSmallGrantSummaryGiolami2010.pdf [pdf]
A History of NDTA Small Grant Awards
1988 - Claudia Senesac. “Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Program to Enhance Parental Handling Skills Through the Use of Polaroid Photographs and Hand Placement”
1990 - Karen Mueller. “Effects of Two Contemporary Tone Inhibiting Orthoses on Foot Loading Patterns in Adult Hemiplegia”
Presentation: June 1992 at the American Physical Therapy Association Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado and in June 1994 at the 2nd Annual Joint American Physical Therapy Association/Canadian Physiotherapy Conference, Toronto Publication: Mueller, K., Cornwall, M., McPoil, T., Mueller, D., & Sartor-Glittenberg, C. (1995). Effects of two contemporary tone inhibiting ankle foot orthoses on foot-loading patterns in adult hemiplegics: A small group study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 1(4), 1-16. Reprint: Mueller, K., Cornwall, M., McPoil, T., Mueller, D., & Sartor-Glittenberg, C. (Nov/Dec 1995)). Effects of two contemporary tone inhibiting ankle foot orthoses on foot-loading patterns in adult hemiplegics: A small group study. NDTA Network, 1-11.
1990 - Dayle Lynn Chakerian. “Effects of Upper Extremity Weight-Bearing on Hand Opening and Prehension Patterns in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy”
Presentation: July 1991 at the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, 11th International Congress, London. Publication: Chakerian, D.L., & Larson, M. A. (1993). Effects of upper-extremity weight-bearing on hand-opening and prehension patterns in children with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 35, 216-229.
1990 - Julie Mount. “Transfer of Motor Skills from One Posture to Another”
Presentation: June 1994 at the 2nd Annual Joint American Physical Therapy Association/Canadian Physiotherapy Conference, Toronto.
Publication: Mount, J. (1996). Effect of practice of a throwing skill in one body position on performance of the skill in an alternate position. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 83(3 Pt 1), 723-732.
1991 - Richard Conti and Gay Girolami. “The Effects of a Combined Muscle Strengthening Progran and NDT on a Child with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy”
Publication: Conti, R., & Girolami, G. L. (1995, May). The effects of a combined muscle strengthening program and NDT on a child with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. NDTA Network, 1-11.
1991 - Sandra Levine. “The Developmental of a Posture Scale for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Preliminary Study of Validity”
Presentation: February 1996 at the Combined Sections Meeting, American Physical Therapy Association.
1992 - John Shea and Joanne Valvano. “Force Production During Precision Grip”
Publication: Volvano, J. (Jan/Feb 1999). Precision isometric grip force production in children with spastic cerebral palsy. NDTA Network, 1-4.
1995 - Kathleen Ganley. “The Effects of Supramalleolar Orthoses and Single-limb Support in Down’s Syndrome”
Presentation: May 2000 at the NDTA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1997 - Helene Larin. “Construct Validity of the Motor Teaching Strategies Coding Instrument: Studies of NDT Experience”
Presentation: June 1997 at the First World Congress of the Neuro-Developmental Treatment Concept, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Abstract: Larin H. (1997). Motor teaching strategies and NDT paediatric experience. Book of Abstracts. The First World Congress of the Neuro-Developmental Treatment Concept. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2001 - Linda Shriber. “The Effect of Prone vs. Supine Positioning on the Acquisition of Prone Propping in 4-month-old Infants”
Publication: Dudek-Shriber, L., & Zelazny, S. (2007). The effects of prone positioning on the quality and acquisition of developmental milestones in four-month-old infants. Pediatric Physical Therapy, 19, 48-55.
2002 - Sherry Lynn Wilson Arndt. “Neuro-developmental Treatment for Infants, 5-15 months, with Developmental Motor Delay—Changes in Gross Motor Function (GMFM)”
Presentation: February 2005 at the Combined Sections Meeting, American Physical Therapy Association. Poster Presentation: 2005 NDTA Conference, Houston, Texas Abstract: Arndt, S. W., Chandler, L. S., Sweeney, J. K, Sharkey, M. A., McElroy, J. J., Chapman, B. S., & Wiggin, M.M. (2005). Neuro-developmental treatment versus parent-infant play group for infants with posture and movement dysfunction. Pediatric Physical Therapy, 17, 57. Publication: Arndt, S. W., Chandler, L. S., Sweeney, J. K., Sharkey, M. A., & McElroy, J. J. (2008). Neurodevelopmental treatment-based trunk protocol for infants with posture and movement dysfunction. Pediatric Physical Therapy, 20, 11-22.
2006 - Gay Girolami. “Comparison of Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in Children with Cerebral Palsy and Their Non-disabled Peers”
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