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Vol. 74, No. 12, December 1994, pp. 1122-1123
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Ann F VanSant

AF VanSant, PhD, PT, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Allied Health Professions, Temple University, 3307 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19140

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

I congratulate the authors for undertaking the task of using component movement pattern descriptions to examine a sample of adults with developmental disability performing the rising task. The description of the movements used by individuals with disabilities has been a long-term goal of the research program from which the descriptive categories arose. The need to describe and understand motor behavior of individuals with developmental disabilities is important to validating physical therapy.

This study clearly illustrates the fundamental assumptions that must be examined before using the sets of movement pattern descriptions to answer questions regarding the developmental status of any population.

The first assumption concerns the methods used to gather the data. The authors' methods seem well within the limits that would permit comparison of data between their study and my original study of young adults.1...


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