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Publications on the Challenge and Related Publications

The following are publications on the Challenge and related subjects:

Challenge

Hilderley AJ, Fehlings D, Taylor MJ, Chen JL, Wright FV. An exploratory study of functional brain activity associated with gross motor function improvement in children with unilateral cerebral palsy. Developmental Neurorehabilitation. 2024 Oct 7:1-9.

Nordbye-Nielsen K, Wright FV, Rahbek O, Møller-Madsen B, & Maribo T. Feasibility of the Challenge Assessment, the Gait Outcomes Assessment List and ‘Moving Together’(‘Sammen I Bevægels e’), a Group-Based Motor Skills Intervention for Independent School-Aged Children with Cerebral Palsy. Developmental Neurorehabilitation. 2024 Oct 19:1-13.

Milaščević D, Wright FV, Milošević M, Neubauer D. Measuring advanced motor skills in children with cerebral palsy: development of normative data and percentile curves for the Challenge-20 assessment. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. 2022 Sep 12:10-97.

Nordbye-Neilson K, Rahbek O, Wright FV, Maribo T. Reliability and Minimal Detectable Change of the Challenge, an Advanced Motor Skills Test for Children with Cerebral Palsy, Danish version. Disabil Rehabil. 2022l44: 4485-4492.

Sousa Jr RR*, Bensemann Gontijo AP, Santos TRT, Wright FV, Mancini MC. (2021). Measurement Properties and Translation to Brazilian-Portuguese of the Challenge for Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr. 41(4): 372-389.

Wright FV, Chun CY, Mistry B, Walker J. How reliable is the Challenge when used to measure advanced motor skills of children with cerebral palsy?. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr. 2018;38 (4):  382-394

Gibson BE, Mistry B, Wright FV. Development of child and family-centred engagement guidelines for clinical administration of the Challenge to measure advanced gross motor skills: A qualitative study. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr. 2018;38(4): 417-426

Wright V, Avery L, Fehlings D, Rosenbaum P, Andersen J, Wood E, Kim M. Assessing advanced motor skills in young people with cerebral palsy in GMFCS Levels I and II: Rasch analysis of the Challenge.Dev Med Child Neurol. 2016;58(S5):77-78.

Glazebrook C*, Wright V. Further development of the Challenge Module, a measure of advanced motor skill in children with cerebral palsy. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2014 Mar 29;26:201-213.

Wright V, Shircore L, Fehlings D, Lee G. Reliability of the Challenge Module for children with cerebral palsy in GMFCS Level I. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2012;54 (Suppl 6):32

Wilson A*, Kavanaugh A*, Moher R*, McInroy M*, Gupta N*, Salbach NE, Wright V. Development and pilot testing of the Challenge Module: a proposed adjunct to the Gross Motor Function  Measure for high functioning children with cerebral palsy. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr. 2011; 31:135-149

Related Publications

Wright V, Brewer E, Dalziel B, Ahuwahlia P, Lee G. Testing the use of a new measure, the Challenge-III, in a gross motor camp with children with cerebral palsy who use walking devices. Dev Med Child Neurol2016;58(S5)

Wright V, Maltais D, Burtner P, Sanders H. Motor measures: a moving target? Sem Pediatr Neurol. 2013 Jun;20(2):84-99.

Related Measure -  ABI-CA Challenge Assessment developed for children acquired with brain injury

Ibey R*, Chung R*, Benjamin N*, Sarginson A*, Littlejohn S, Salbach N., Wright V.
Development of a Challenge Assessment for high functioning children with an acquired brain injury. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2010;22: 268-276. 

MacArthur C*, Ventakesh S*, Warren D*, Doerr T*, Pringle D*, Kirkwood G, Salbach N, Wright V.  Refining the response scale of the ABI Challenge module to enhance its ability to measure change in children and youth with ABI. Brain Inj. 2013;27: 1271-1280. 

Wong RKY*, McEwan J*, Finlayson D*, Chung S*, Wan L*, Salbach NM, Kirkwood G, Meschino C,Wright V. Reliability and Validity of the Acquired Brain Injury Challenge Assessment (ABI-CA) in Children. Brain Inj. 2014 December early online: 1-10.