Study | Task-specific intervention/s | Key characteristics of task-specific training | Components of the TIDiER checklist | ||||||||||||||
Overall approach | Motor learning strategies reported | Dosage (total hours) | Setting | Format | Providers | Adherence | Fidelity | ||||||||||
Goal-directed | Motor learning driven | Feedback | Cogn. strat. | Repet. practice | Task mod. | Environ. mod | Obs. learning | Dual task learning | Reported? | ||||||||
Group designs | |||||||||||||||||
AACPDM level II and III task-specific versus comparison | Bar-Haim et al 27 | Motor learning coaching | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 hour, 3 days/week for 3 months (36 hours) | School | NS | Trained PT | ||||
Bleyenheuft et al 25 | HABIT-ILE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 hours/day for 10 consecutive days (90 hours) | Recreation camp | Group | Trained PTs, OTs, and PT/OT students | ✓ | |||||
Declerck et al 26 | Swimming skills programme | ✓ | 40–50 mins, 2 days/week for 10 weeks (15 hours) | Swimming pool | Group | PT and PT students | ✓ | ||||||||||
Grecco et al 28 | Overground walking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 30 mins, 2 days/week for 7 weeks (7 hours) | NS | NS | Therapist | |||||||||
Ketelaar et al 33 | Functional therapy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 months—intensity or hours NS (NS) | Clinic and home | NS | Trained PTs and parents | ||||||
Kumban et al 29 | Sit-to-stand task training | ✓ | ✓ | 20 min, 3 days/week for 6 weeks (6 hours) | School | NS | Child’s own PT | ||||||||||
Swe et al 30 | Overground walking | ✓ | ✓ | 30 mins, 2 days/week for 8 weeks (8 hours) | School | NS | PTs | ✓ | |||||||||
Capio et al 31 | Functional motor skills training | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 45 mins, 1 day/week for 4 weeks (3 hours) | NS | NS | Each child’s regular PT | ✓ | ||||||||
Level I and III task-specific vs task-specific | Hemayattalab et al 32 | Throwing task with different feedback conditions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Two sessions in 2 days (NS) | NS | NS | NS | |||||||
Hemayattalab and Rostami 34 | Throwing task with different feedback conditions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Eight sessions Intensity or hours NS (NS) | NS | NS | Specialist trainers | ||||||||
Löwing et al e35 | Activity focused individual therapy vs goal-directed therapy | ✓ (goal group only) | ✓ inc. home programme | Three sessions/fortnight for 12 weeks (NS) | Clinic and home/preschool | Group and individual | PT, OT, SP, teacher and parents | ||||||||||
Level IV | Sorsdahl et al 36 | Functional family centred goal-directed therapy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ inc. home programme | ✓ | ✓ | 3 hours, 5 days/week for 3 weeks (45 hours) | Clinic | Group | Trained PTs and parents | ✓ | |||||
Single-subject design | |||||||||||||||||
Level I | Thorpe and Valvano14 | Novel motor task learning with different conditions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Three sessions over 5 days (NS) | School | Individual | PT (also the PI) |
Cogn, cognitive; environ, environmental; inc, including; NS, not stated; HABIT-ILE, Hand Arm Bimanual Intensive Training Including Lower Extremity; mod, modification; PI, principal investigator; Obs, observational; OT, occupational therapist; PT, physiotherapist; SP, speech therapist; Strat, strategies; TIDiER, Template for Intervention Descriptions and Replication; trained, trained in specific intervention protocol.