BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Neurol.
Sec. Neurorehabilitation
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1579638
THE ASSESSMENT OF WALKING SKILLS: ITALIAN VERSION
Provisionally accepted
- 1Ricerca in Advanced NeuroRehabilitation, Istituto S. Anna, Crotone, Italy
- 2European University of Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
- 3Sant'Anna Crotone Institute, Crotone, Italy
- 4Department of General Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Veneto, Italy
- 5Neurorehabilitation Unit, Section of Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Hospital-University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Apraxia is a neuropsychological disorder that impairs voluntary, purposeful movements, with "Gait apraxia" specifically affecting walking. Because of the lack of standardized diagnostic tools, in Italian, we translated and adapted the "Assessment of Walking Skills" (AWS) scale, originally developed for identifying gait apraxia in Alzheimer's patients. The AWS includes 42 items that evaluate trunk and leg movements, useful for comparing the performance between patients and healthy controls. This translation and adaptation represent a critical step towards standardizing the AWS scale for the Italian population.
Keywords: apraxia, Assessment of Walking Skills, Gait, Neuropsychological disorder, Diagnostic tools
Received: 19 Feb 2025; Accepted: 27 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Cortese, Cernuzio, Tonin, Priftis and Piccione. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Maria Daniela Cortese, Ricerca in Advanced NeuroRehabilitation, Istituto S. Anna, Crotone, Italy
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