24/10/2025
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A recent commentary by CanChild's Co-Founder, Dr. Peter Rosenbaum, highlights how thinking in childhood disability has expanded, and shifted to focus on young people's everyday performance of activities important to them in their own environments, with less attention to the quality of that functioning or to changes on scores in standardized measures. Tools like the new Gross Motor Family Report (GM-FR), which gathers parent perspectives on children’s daily functioning, offer a valuable way to complement traditional assessments and ensure that progress is meaningful in real life. This validated parent-report measure of everyday gross motor performance in children's environments is built on, and correlates well with, the GMFM-66. Through these tools we are now are able to capture changes in functioning that matter to children, and to take advantage of the expertise and experience of parents to report these aspects of functioning efficiently.
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