Effectiveness of Play Therapy for Improvement of Fine Motor Skills and Attention Span in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability in childhood. It's important for children who have cerebral palsy to engage in activities. These activities can be essential in helping the child enjoy the highest quality of life and to improve their muscular and skeletal development. “Play therapy is a medium to develop other skills and abilities.” Through play children at a very early age engage and interact in the world around them. A True experimental research study where experimental and control group pre-test-post-test only design was used to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching module on knowledge among mothers regarding play therapy for improvement of fine motor skills and attention span in children with cerebral palsy. The data were collected from 60 mothers of children with Cerebral Palsy by simple random sampling technique for experimental group and control group by using close ended knowledge questionnaire. ‘t’ test and chi square test has been done. In experimental group the Findings revealed that the pre-test scores was 14.73±3.19 which shows 36.82% of the total mean score, where as in post-test the total mean score was 32.6±4.19 which reveals 81.5% of total mean score. In the control group the pre-test scores of mother of children with CP was 15.33±2.79 which reveals 38.32% of the total mean score, where in the post test the total mean score was 14.07 ±3.8 which shows 35.15%. From the findings of the present study it was concluded that VATM regarding play therapy for improvement of fine motor skills and attention span in children with cerebral palsy children was effective to increase the level of knowledge among mothers of CP children.