Dr. DeLuca's Publications

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DeLuca SC, Trucks MR, Wallace D, Ramey SL. Evidence for Using ACQUIRE Therapy in the Clinical Application of Intensive Therapy: A Framework to Guide Therapeutic Interactions. Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Jun 7;13(6):484. doi: 10.3390/bs13060484. PMID: 37366736; PMCID: PMC10295037.

Ramey SL, DeLuca SC, Stevenson RD, Conaway M, Darragh AR, Lo W; CHAMP. Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Trial. Pediatrics. 2021 Nov;148(5):e2020033878. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-033878. Epub 2021 Oct 14. PMID: 34649982.

Wallace D, DeLuca SC. Social injustice and intensive therapies in pediatric rehabilitation research. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2021 Jan;63(1):116. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.14683. Epub 2020 Sep 20. PMID: 32951220.

Lee-Park JJ, Deshpande H, Lisinki J, LaConte S, Ramey SL, DeLuca S. (2018). Neuroimaging strategies addressing challenges in using fMRI for the children with cerebral palsy. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science 8: 306-318.

DeLuca SC, Wallace DA, Trucks MR, Mukherjee K. A clinical series using intensive neurorehabilitation to promote functional motor and cognitive skills in three girls with CASK mutation. BMC Res Notes. 2017 Dec 19;10(1):743. doi: 10.1186/s13104-017-3065-z. PMID: 29258560; PMCID: PMC5735954.

DeLuca SC, Trucks MR, Wallace DA, Ramey SL. (2017). Practice-based evidence from a clinical cohort that received pediatric constraint- induced movement therapy. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 10: 37-46.

Coker-Bolt P, Ramey SL, DeLuca SC. (2016). Promoting evidence-based practices abroad: Developing a Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy program in Ethiopia. OT Practice 21(2): 21-23.

Coker-Bolt P, DeLuca SC, Ramey SL. (2015). Training pediatric therapists to deliver constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Occupational Therapy International.

DeLuca SC, Ramey SL, Trucks MR, Wallace DA. (2015). Multiple treatments of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (pCIMT): A clinical cohort study. American Journal of Occupational Therapy 69: 1-9.

Ramey SL, Coker-Bolt P, DeLuca SC. (2013). A Handbook of Pediatric Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (P-CIMT): Principles of Precision Practice. In: The American Occupational Therapy Association. Bethesda, MD:

Ramey SL, DeLuca SC, Case-Smith J, Stevenson R. (2012). Caution is warranted in interpreting data from a recent trial of modified constraint-induced therapy. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 54(5): 477-79.

DeLuca SC, Case-Smith J, Stevenson R, Ramey SL. (2012). Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) for young children with cerebral palsy: Effects of therapeutic dosage. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 5: 133-42.

Case-Smith J, DeLuca SC, Stevenson R, Ramey SL. (2012). Multicenter randomized controlled trial of pediatric constraint-induced movement therapy: 6-month follow-up. American Journal of Occupational Therapy 66(1): 15-23.

. (2007). ACQUIREc Therapy: A Training Manual for Effective Application of Pediatric Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy. In: DeLuca SC, Echols K, Ramey SL (Ed.), ACQUIREc Therapy: A Training Manual for Effective Application of Pediatric Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy. Hillsborough, NC: MindNurture.

DeLuca, S.C., Echols, K., Law, C.R., & Ramey, S.L. (2006). Intensive pediatric constraint-induced therapy for children with cerebral palsy: A randomized controlled crossover trial. Journal of Child Neurology 21: 931-938.

DeLuca SC, Echols K, Ramey SL, Taub E. (2003). Pediatric constraint-induced movement therapy for a young child: Two episodes of care. Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association 83(11): 1003-13.

Ramey SL, DeLuca SC, Echols K. (2003). Resilience for Today. In: E Grotberg, (Ed.), Resilience In Families With Children Who Are Exceptional. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Taub E, Crago JE, Burgio LD, Groomes TE, Cook EW, DeLuca SC, Miller NE. (1994). An operant approach to rehabilitation medicine: Overcoming learned nonuse by shaping. Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior 61: 281-93.