Julie Bouchard

• Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

This article discussed the issue of low PA levels among school-aged children and highlights the promising approach of school-based interventions, including physically active learning (PAL), to increase PA levels. The study aimed to co-design and to assess the implementation of a PAL program for 8 weeks in 4 elementary classrooms (82 students and 7...

Background A substantial number of school-aged children face developmental vulnerabilities that significantly influence their future educational paths and societal contributions. Childhood physical inactivity, particularly the failure to meet recommended activity levels, is a concern, that negatively impacts holistic child development across cognit...

Le trouble déficitaire de l’attention avec ou sans hyperactivité (TDAH) a une incidence sur tous les domaines du développement global de l’enfant : cognitif, physique/moteur, social, affectif et langagier. Dans la littérature scientifique, la pratique d’activités physiques (AP) est une avenue de plus en plus envisagée pour pallier ce problème. Cet...

Musculoskeletal disorders, cardiovascular and neurological diseases were the most commonly debilitating conditions and risk factors associated with pain, mobility limitations, increased risk of falls and disability. Studies barely address the profile of older adults in care within a specialized geriatric rehabilitation service (SGRS) to provide sub...

Introduction: Parkinson’s disease is most prevalent among elderly people, 65 years and over, and leads to an alteration in motor control associated with postural instability. Current evidence shows that postural control decreases with the aging process. In addition, postural control is more altered in healthy aged men than in women. Until today, fe...

Numerous researches have studied the development of robotics, especially socially assistive robots (SAR), including the NAO robot. This small humanoid robot has a great potential in social assistance. The NAO robot’s features and capabilities, such as motricity, functionality, and affective capacities, have been studied in various contexts. The pri...

Aims: The assessment of the risk of falling in geriatric rehabilitation is often using standardized functional tests, which may be more complex but less representative in older adults with a neurocognitive disorder. The conceptual aim of this manuscript was thus to discuss the impact of adapted instructions on physical performance during standardiz...

PURPOSE: Agility is involved in everyday movements and is essential to the development of sports skills. Recent imaging studies have shown delayed of the cerebral cortex development of near three years in children with ADHD, which could explain MD. this study aims to evaluate Agility in ADHD male adolescents. METHODS: This study included 40 adole...

L'objectif de la recherche est de décrire l'impact d'un TDAH sur la motricité globale chez un groupe d'adolescents. Les participants (N=40) de l'étude sont des adolescents masculins âgés de 12 à 17 ans répartis en deux groupes: Le groupe TDAH (n=20) et le groupe sans TDAH (n=20). La motricité globale des adolescents a été évaluée à l'aide de douze...

Several “high-tech” assistive technologies are currently used in the field of rehabilitation to support the achievement of daily activities. These technologies have proven to be especially effective when used with persons with intellectual disabilities (ID). It is important, however, to consider the interactions between the technology and the peopl...

In hope to reduce the institutionalization of the people suffering of Alzheimer's disease, to promote their autonomy and to facilitate their daily activities, assistive technologies are in development. Recent studies with Alzheimer's patients suggest that this type of technology, using verbal cues, can help them to complete more steps in the accomp...

People with visual impairments face challenges daily when venturing in unfamiliar environments without assistance. In this paper, we introduce a new technological orthosis, the Blind Sight Navigator (BSN), for blind people or those whose sight is deteriorating due to a medical condition, which is a new advance in the fields of assistive technology...

Cette recension se veut un tour d’horizon des principales stratégies d’inclusion scolaire expérimentées avec des enfants ayant un trouble du spectre de l’autisme (TSA). Elle a pour principal objectif d’évaluer l’efficacité de chacune de celles-ci par l’analyse des gains académiques, sociaux et comportementaux. Afin de vérifier que la stratégie a de...

Cette recension se veut un tour d’horizon des principales stratégies d’inclusion scolaire expérimentées avec des enfants ayant un troubles du spectre de l’autisme (TSA). Elle a pour principal objectif d’évaluer l’efficacité de chacune de celles-ci par l’analyse des gains académiques, sociaux et comportementaux. Afin de vérifier que la stratégie a d...

Assistive technologies represent a potential solution to allow people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to remain in their home for as long as possible. They involve the use of technological devices called prompts, which aim to provide adapted cognitive assistance when needed. However, a literature review of the field revealed a predominant use of verb...

BACKGROUND For some people with an intellectual disability (ID), the performance of daily life activities represents a certain number of challenges. Cognitive and adaptive limitations restrict the ability to make choices, solve problems, and evaluate the consequences of taken actions. One of the technological proposals raised by the scientific comm...

Smart home technologies constitute a potential solution to allow people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to remain in their home. These intelligent houses contain technological devices aiming to provide adapted cognitive assistance (prompts) when needed. However, a literature review of the field revealed a predominant use of verbal prompts with little...

Le vieillissement de la population entraîne une croissance des cas de maladie d’Alzheimer (MA) augmentant ainsi les coûts économiques et sociaux associés (dont l’épuisement des proches aidants, l’augmentation des besoins en effectifs médicaux et l’augmentation des coûts liés au soin de santé). C’est dans le but de maintenir les personnes atteintes...

Smart homes provide a technologically enhanced environment that helps user’s complete activities of daily living, thus increasing their autonomy. However, predominant use of verbal prompts in smart homes, with little knowledge of their effectiveness, affects significantly their efficiency by providing prompts that are not optimized with the profile...