About the group 

The major aim of the group is to stimulate for, initiate and carry out research around the following areas:

  • Cognitive, motoric, emotional and social function in children and youth with a neurological disease, and how challenges in these areas affect their possibility to take part in physical activities and daily life.
  • The need for and the impact of (re)habilitation therapies for children and youth with a neurological disease or damage.
  • Habilitation services and unwarranted variation in services offered to people with cerebral palsy (CP) in Norway.

Ongoing studies

  • Development of the GoCP Intervention: A Nordic Registry and Questionnaire Study to Establish a Consensus-Based Physiotherapeutic Approach for Joint Contractures in Children with Cerebral palsy
  • Innovative language assessment for children with low motor and speech function: Engaging stakeholders to understand the necessary conditions for implementing the C-BiLLT in Canada
  • Should we use the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory – Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT) in a Northern European setting?
  • Neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia; outcomes in adolescence
  • Paediatric and adolescent medulloblastoma and CNS-PNET in Norway 1974 – 2013: Survival, regional differences, and late effects
  • Cognition and Intellectual Disability (CO-IND)
  • Communication and diagnostic assessment of girls with Rett syndrome
  • PlayMoST - Playing-to-learn-to-Move – a Shared Therapeutic approach
  • Piloting an interactive assessment of executive functioning in Norwegian children with cerebral palsy: the CP-EPELI-Nor study

Selected publications

  • Larsen SM, Ramstad K, Hollung SJ, Andersen GL, Diseth TH. Higher Self- than Parent-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life in Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy; a Register Study. Acta Paediatrica https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.70055 Online 2025 March 7
  • Hansen TN, Christensen KB, Stahlhut M, Ketelaar M, Klevberg GL, Laursen LB, Kristensen MR, Jahnsen R, Hansen T. Use of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory - Computer Adaptive Test in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2025 Nov;67(11):1482-1493. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40249747/
  • Kilde A, Evensen KAI, Kløve N, Rodby-Bousquet E, Lydersen S, Klevberg GL. Early Independent Wheeled Mobility in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Norwegian Population-Based Registry Study. J Clin Med. 2025 Jan 30;14(3):923. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39941594/
  • Petterson K, Johansen M, Jahnsen R, Rodby-Bousquet E. Characteristics of children with ataxic cerebral palsy. BMC Pediatrics, 2025 25:335 doi.org/10.1186/s12887-025-05681-x
  • Månum G, Gjessing B, Hæhre E, Jahnsen R, Nyquist A & Ullenhag A: Empowering autonomy: exploring the transfer of lessons learned from group-based rehabilitation to everyday life for young adults with disabilities, Disability and Rehabilitation, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638288.2025.2575113
  • Lorentzen, L. E., Hollung, S. J., & Stadskleiv, K. (2025). Considerations when assessing cognition in children with cerebral palsy. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2025.2547010
  • Stadskleiv, K., Lorentzen, L. E., & Hollung, S. J. (2025). Cognitive assessment practices of children with cerebral palsy: a national cohort study. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 28(4-5), 125-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/17518423.2025.2526357
  • Alriksson-Schmidt, A. I., Lindquist, B., Knudsen, M. J., Ödman, P., Korsfeldt, Å., & Stadskleiv, K. (2025). Cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy living in Sweden. Child Neuropsychology, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2025.2566090
  • Coan-Brill, J., Costigan, F. A., Kay, J., Stadskleiv, K., Batorowicz, B., Chau, T., ... & Cunningham, B. J. (2025). Developing a profile of Canadian children with cerebral palsy who require augmentative and alternative communication. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 34(2), 605-616. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00284
  • Johnsen, S., Sørensen, K., Skranes, J. S., Vestrheim, I. E., Modahl, M. G., Jahnsen, R. B., Stadskleiv, K.... & Sæther, R. (2025). Predictors of Parent-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life in Young Children with Early Brain Damage and Severe Motor Dysfunction. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14(19), 7054. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14197054
  • Stadskleiv, K., Latham, K., Spanne, K. T., Sætre, K., Fraas, A., Ruscito, I., ... & Murray, J. (2026). Assessment of Cognition and Language Using Alternative Response Modalities. Assessment, 33(1), 46-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911251315012