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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of LT in a child with chronic, incomplete SCI.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Subject<\/jats:title><jats:p>The subject was a nonambulatory 4\u00bd-year-old boy with an American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) C Lower Extremity Motor Score (LEMS) of 4\/50 who was deemed permanently wheelchair-dependent and was enrolled in an LT program 16 months after a severe cervical SCI.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A pretest-posttest design was used in the study. Over 16 weeks, the child received 76 LT sessions using both treadmill and over-ground settings in which graded sensory cues were provided. The outcome measures were ASIA Impairment Scale score, gait speed, walking independence, and number of steps.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Result<\/jats:title><jats:p>One month into LT, voluntary stepping began, and the child progressed from having no ability to use his legs to community ambulation with a rolling walker. By the end of LT, his walking independence score had increased from 0 to 13\/20, despite no change in LEMS. The child's final self-selected gait speed was 0.29 m\/s, with an average of 2,488 community-based steps per day and a maximum speed of 0.48 m\/s. He then attended kindergarten using a walker full-time.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion and Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>A simple, context-dependent stepping pattern sufficient for community ambulation was recovered in the absence of substantial voluntary isolated lower-extremity movement in a child with chronic, severe SCI. 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