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We quantified relative reliability with Intra-Class Correlation Coefficients (ICC) and absolute reliability with Smallest Detectable Changes (SDC).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Most children with UMN lesions (&amp;gt;88%) found the tests easy to perform. The children with UMN lesions had significantly (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001) lower proprioceptive function than the TD children. The correlation between the three proprioceptive modalities was moderate to high (0.50\u2009\u2264\u2009r<jats:sub>s<\/jats:sub>\u2009\u2264\u20090.79). The relative reliability for test-retest and the inter-rater reliability was moderate to high (ICCs\u2009=\u20090.65\u20130.97), and SDC was between 2\u00b0 and 15\u00b0.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The three tests are feasible, and discriminative and convergent validity and reliability were confirmed. 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