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Extensive research on the efficacy of behavioral interventions in neuromuscular disorders has shown that behavioral techniques are effective in improving neuromuscular control across a wide variety of disorders. However, it has been the trend in research with neuromuscular disorders to apply the same or similar procedures across diagnoses, age levels, and cognitive levels. Less attention has been paid to the differential effectiveness of treatment as a function of patient characteristics. Treatments have typically been developed for use with adult subjects of normal intelligence with few reported cases of the application of these procedures to the developmentally disabled.
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Parker, L.H. (1988). Assessment and Treatment of Neuromuscular Disorders. In: Russo, D.C., Kedesdy, J.H. (eds) Behavioral Medicine with the Developmentally Disabled. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0999-4_6
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