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The Meldreth dribble control project reassessed
Author(s) -
JONES PHILIP R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1982.tb00270.x
Subject(s) - cerebral palsied , task (project management) , control (management) , swallowing , psychology , term (time) , computer science , medicine , artificial intelligence , engineering , cerebral palsy , psychiatry , physics , systems engineering , dentistry , quantum mechanics
Summary An experiment was devised whose primary aim was to assess whether task concentration affected dribble control with eight ESN(S) cerebral palsied children who had been trained to associate an auditory cue with swallowing. The investigation was inconclusive as far as its main objective was concerned. The results indicate that previous researchers were measuring dribble production using an inherently unreliable sampling procedure. Also their claims for the effectiveness of the method can perhaps be considered rather over‐optimistic in regard to its clinical use for long term dribble control.