The Effects of Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Training (HABIT) in Children With Bilateral Cerebral Palsy

Provision of individualized bimanual activities, individually chosen according to the child´s abilities, impairments and improvements in order to achieve success and to encourage bimanual use. Task difficulty is graded, focusing on enhancing the level of difficulty or speed, according to child's improvements. We use whole task practice (sequencing successive movements in the context of activities), part task practice (practice of specific components of the task in a repetitive sequence of time) and individualized functional goal training.

Children will maintain the occupational therapy sessions with their therapists, without any change in their routine at the rehabilitation center. Strategies such as functional training, stretching and sensory stimulation are used.