Teaches children to control one or two joints at a time. The highest part of the body that needs more control, is targeted first – often, children with cerebral palsy have difficulty controlling their head, so that is where it starts.
This approach is only available privately at the Movement Centre, Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust, Oswestry, tel: 01691 404248, www.the-movement-centre.co.uk. Members of the Movement Centre have published a number of papers on it, including the two below.
Butler PB. A preliminary report on the effectiveness of trunk targeting in achieving independent sitting balance in children with cerebral palsy. Clinical Rehabilitation 1998, 12(4), 281-293.
Patrick JH et al. Therapeutic choices in the locomotor management of the child with cerebral palsy: more luck than judgement? Archives of Disability in Childhood Oct.2001, 85:275-279.
Information from the charity Scope about Targeted Training, tel: 0808 800 3333,
http://tinyurl.com/2w6gb6.
