Objective: The goal of this study was to assess the impact of 16 weeks of visuospatial training on the visuospatial abilities in 6 years of age child with cerebral palsy.

Background: It is known that children with cerebral palsy have delay in the development of neurocognitive abilities. It is important to receive the evidence for efficiency of different trainings that are aimed to help children with cerebral palsy.

Method: The child is 6 year old boy with cerebral palsy. The neuropsychological assessment of child has revealed the deficit in visuospatial abilities. Child participated in 16 weeks of visuospatial training. A total of 42 therapy sessions lasting 50 minutes were performed. This training trains the child to do different visuospatial exercises both on motor and cognitive level. This training is built on the conceptual framework derived from the work of Luria’s theory of restoration of neurocognitive functions (Luria, 1963, 1974).

Results: Neuropsychological assessment of child after the intervention period has revealed apparent progress in performance of 3 subtests from Luria’s neuropsychological assessment battery for children which designed to asses visuospatial functions (Head subtest, mental rotation, design copying).

Conclusion: According to result of this case report it can be assumed that visuospatial training can be used as a prospective approach for development of visuospatial functions in children with cerebral palsy. However, we need to prove this result using  visuospatial training for group of children with cerebral palsy.

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