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Vol. 78, No. 9, September 1998, pp. 949-950
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David A Brown, Susan K Effgen and Robert J Palisano

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

We appreciate Dr Shelden's thoughtful comments and agree with her perspective that evaluation of the effectiveness of physical therapy requires evidence that intervention improves function in contexts that are meaningful to individuals with limited physical and cognitive abilities, their families, and others who interact with them on a regular basis. Our study was not designed to address this question. Our aim was to begin to examine a model of physical therapy for individuals with limited physical and cognitive abilities. Research models have been defined as "idealized constructs that typically incorporate a number of variables and are used by scientists both to visualize and to test theories."1 Transfer of learning, functional outcome, and relevance of age and experience of the learner are constructs within the ability-focused intervention model that require critical examination.


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