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Luca Tagliabue1,2, Francesco Cerroni3, Raffaella Salatiello3
1Child and Adolescent Health Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, Italy.
Insights
This study explored the Neuro-Psychomotor (NPM) intervention for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Findings suggest NPM intervention is a reliable and flexible approach beneficial for various conditions.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics
- Developmental Psychology
- Rehabilitation Medicine
Background:
- Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) manifest during development, causing global functional impairments.
- Effective NDD rehabilitation requires flexible, individualized, and multidimensional approaches.
- The Neuro-Psychomotor (NPM) intervention is an Italian naturalistic model for NDDs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the features, feasibility, and limitations of the NPM intervention.
- To assess the impact of NPM intervention on children with NDDs.
- To evaluate the suitability of NPM intervention for diverse neurodevelopmental conditions.
Main Methods:
- A single-arm clinical trial involving 30 children with NDDs (16 Mixed Specific Developmental Disorder, 14 Intellectual Disability).
- Parents completed validated questionnaires (Developmental Profile-3, Sensory Processing Measure) pre- and post-intervention.
- Intervention duration was 6 months of NPM therapy.
Main Results:
- The NPM intervention demonstrated reliability and flexibility in a naturalistic setting.
- The intervention was found to be helpful for children across different NDDs.
- Preliminary findings indicate feasibility, though limitations exist.
Conclusions:
- The NPM intervention shows promise as a beneficial approach for children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
- The intervention's adaptability makes it suitable for individualized care plans.
- Further research with larger samples is recommended to confirm efficacy.
Abstract:
Neurodevelopmental disorders are a group of complex conditions with onset in the developmental period, that produce impairments of global functioning. For these features, the rehabilitative approaches should be flexible, tailored to the individual characteristics of each patient, and characterized by a standardized multidimensional view, for taking into consideration all the several areas of neurodevelopment. This single-arm clinical trial aims to investigate the features, feasibility, and limitations of Neuro-Psychomotor (NPM) intervention, an Italian naturalistic model for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 30 children (16 with Mixed Specific Developmental Disorder vs 14 with Intellectual Disability) were recruited and their parents filled out two validated tools questionnaires (Developmental Profile-3 and Sensory Processing Measure), before and after 6 months of NPM intervention. Although with some limitations, findings showed that NPM intervention is reliable, flexible, and helpful for children with different neurodevelopmental disorders. Further studies are necessary to investigate its efficacy on a larger sample.
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