Hawe receives grant with Children's Minnesota

Rachel Hawe, PhD, assistant professor in School of Kinesiology and director of the NeuroRehabiliation Across the Lifespan (NeuRAL) Lab, along with Kathy Grinde, a physical therapist at Children's Minnesota, have received a $44,000 grant from Children's Minnesota titled "Computer Vision Based Kinematic Analysis of Assisting Hand Assessment for Children with Cerebral Palsy." 

Hawe and colleagues have previously developed a software tool to use computer vision to enhance clinical assessments of bilateral arm use in school-aged children with cerebral palsy. This grant will apply the tool to children 2-5 years old who have clinical assessments completed before and after intensive therapies. Hawe and Grinde are exploring whether the computer vision analysis is more sensitive to changes than traditional clinical assessments.