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We are looking for infants who will soon turn 5 months, born within 3 weeks of due date, weighing less than 30 lbs., have not yet started to crawl on hands and knees, and are developing typically. Your child can help us in our work to study the effect of using (or not) a robot to move around and play with toys on cognitive development. Our long-term goal is to assist infants with disabilities explore their environment in ways that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Your infant will be randomly assigned to either group a) using the robot, or group b) not using the robot; in both groups, infants will play with toys for 12 sessions over no more than 8 weeks. Each play session will be about 20 minutes long and will take place in Williams Hall or Center for Health Sciences on the Ithaca College campus. All infants will also be given a developmental assessment and four cognitive assessment tasks. You will receive $20.00 incentive for each of the 16 sessions that you attend to defray transportation costs and time. The total time commitment for parents and for the infant training and assessment is approximately 8 hours. If you are interested in participating in this project (or if you know someone who might be), please contact: Hélène Larin, PT, PhD Phone: 607-274-3116 Email: hlarin@ithaca.edu |
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