| 591 | Friday, April 4, 2003 |
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| 8:45 AM-10:00 AM | Convention Center:113B |
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| Research Consortium Scholar Lecture - Early Locomotor Intervention With Infants With Developmental Disabilities: Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice |
| Dr. Ulrich will review several theoretical principles that we have been using to explain changes in locomotor behavior in infants with Down syndrome and how common constraints seen in Down syndrome influence walking. Dr. Ulrich will then present the results of two randomized clinical trials involving treadmill training in infants with Down syndrome, the long-term developmental outcomes of this training, and how we are beginning to observe infants at-risk for cerebral palsy stepping on the treadmill. He will also make several recommendations on how to provide early motor experiences to reduce the delay in onset of walking in Down syndrome.
Dr. Ulrich earned his Ph.D. in 1981 from Michigan State University in the area of Adapted Physical Activity and Measurement. He published the Test of Gross Motor Development in 1985 and the second edition of the Test of Gross Motor Development in 2000. He was on the faculty for 14 years at Indiana University and is currently a tenured professor at the University of Michigan and is the Director of the Down syndrome center at Michigan. Dr. Ulrich currently has $1.8 million dollars of funding for research and research training. His most recent research article in the journal, Pediatrics, (November 2001) won a $ 10,000 award from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation for the most Outstanding Clinical Research Study published last year. |
Keyword(s): adapted physical activity, research
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| Presider: John M. Dunn, University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale, Carbondale, IL |
| Speaker: Dale A. Ulrich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |