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Our training schemes value manual ability and visual ideas.

Strong associations were seen between completion of the entire test battery and topographical pattern, level of manual ability and level of gross motor function.

Setting out this objective, we also intended to improve the current understanding of the nature of manual ability and especially its interaction with diagnosis.

Like the GMFCS, the MACS is a five-level system where level I represents the best manual ability and level V indicates that the child does not have any active hand function (Table 1).

Additionally, coexisting disabilities including poor vision and diminished manual abilities and cognition can further affect the ability to use the cochlear implant successfully.

56 Research has shown good construct validity between the manual ability classification system and the GMFCS (r=0.79), as well as a high inter-rater reliability between therapists (r=0.97) and an intra-rater reliability between parents and therapists (r=0.96).

The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between gross motor function and manual ability as measured by the GMFCS and the MACS, respectively, in a defined total population of children with CP.

Four paediatric physical therapists (PT) with long clinical experience and familiarity with the measures classified the children according to the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) [ 46] and Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) [ 47], and performed the assessment with the GMFM-66, GMPM and QUEST.

Children with dyskinetic CP had large limitations in both gross motor function and manual ability, with no significant discrepancy between GMFCS and MACS levels.

The distribution between levels of gross motor function (GMFCS) and manual ability (MACS) is shown in Figure 2 and Table 4.

In the Delphi survey the key domains agreed as relevant by over 200 health professionals were: mental health, confidence/emotional stability, anxiety/attention, sleep, pain, toileting, movement and manual ability, acquiring skills, communication, mobility, self-care, recreation and leisure [ 14].