Pilot Study of the Effectiveness of Weighted Vests.
OBJECTIVE. In this pilot study, we determined the effectiveness of a weighted vest on attention to task for second-grade general education students with difficulty attending. METHOD. We used an intervention and a control group and an ABA design to compare participants' percentage of time on task wit...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 65; no. 6; pp. 688 - 695 |
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| Formato: | clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Occupational Therapy Association
Nov/Dec2011
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