@article{ref1,
title="Safety in road crossing of children with cerebral palsy",
journal="Acta paediatrica",
year="2003",
author="te Velde, Arenda F. and Savelsbergh, Geert J. P. and Barela, Jose A. and van der Kamp, John",
volume="92",
number="10",
pages="1197-1204",
abstract="AIM: Children with cerebral palsy (CP) are  regularly confronted with physical constraints during locomotion. Because  abnormalities in motor control are often related to perceptual deficits, the aim  of this study was to find out whether children with CP were able to walk across  a road as safely as their non-handicapped peers. METHOD: Ten children with CP  and 10 non-handicapped children aged 4-14 y were asked to cross a simulated road  if they felt the situation was safe. RESULTS: With respect to safety and  accuracy of crossings, the behaviour of children with CP was comparable with  that of non-handicapped children. However, a closer examination of  children's individual crossing behaviour showed considerable differences  within the CP group. In contrast to children with damage to the left hemisphere,  children with damage to the right hemisphere made unsafe decisions and did not  compensate for them by increasing walking speed. CONCLUSION: The differences in  unsafe behaviour and in the ability to compensate for it within the group of  children with CP might be related to damage to specific regions of the brain  that are involved in the processing of spatial or temporal  information.",
language="",
issn="0803-5253",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}