Further development of the Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA)

The Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA) is an assessment instrument with the purpose to measure and describe how effectively children with a unilateral impariment in arm and hand use their affected hand in bimanual activities. Within this project the AHA was recently validated in a new version (AHA 5.0) and the age span extended to 18 months to 18 years for children and youth with unilateral cerebral palsy. During 2016-22 the AHA 5.0 will be validated for children and youth with unilateral plexus palsy. 

  Assisting Hand Assessment test kit

• Holmefur, M. , Elvrum, A. G. & Krumlinde-Sundholm, L. (2023). The assisting hand assessment for children and youth with brachial plexus birth injury: a study of validity and item hierarchy of AHA-Plex.  Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 55. [BibTeX]

• Greaves, S. , Holmefur, M. , Bard-Pondarre, R. & Krumlinde-Sundholm, L. (2025). Linking the Mini-Assisting Hand Assessment and the Assisting Hand Assessment in children with unilateral cerebral palsy.  Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 67 (10), 1309-1314. [BibTeX]