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Adventures at Hand! Games for Visual Motor Skills Development
This set of six games is geared toward remediation of visual-motor skills in children ages 4 to 11. Adventures at Hand. is especially effective with children affected by dyspraxia, sensory integration dysfunction, developmental delay, and attention deficit disorder. It serves as an effective resource for occupational therapists; parents of children with learning disabilities and/or handwriting difficulty; teachers; diagnostic clinics, preschools; kindergartens; elementary schools; and early intervention programs.
Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III) Motor Scale Kit
Efficiently and accurately identify motor delays in young children.
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Bayley Scales of Infant Development®, Second Edition (BSID–II) Motor Scale Kit
The Bayley Scales of Infant Development has been conveniently repackaged to include everything you need to assess motor development. The Motor Scale Kit helps you assess these skills: degree of body control, large muscle coordination, finer manipulatory skills of the hands and fingers, dynamic movement, dynamic praxis, postural imitation, and stereognosis. Motor Scale Administration Directions is a new component that provides all the necessary information to administer and score the Motor Scale assessment.
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Big Strokes for Little Folks
Develop letter and number formation by grouping symbols according to similar characteristics Use this developmental training program to prepare children ages 5 through 9 for handwriting. Improve children's spontaneous, legible manuscript letter formation and placement. Guide students to printing each letter of the alphabet and (optionally) numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6-8. Children will find the creative activities in this product fun and challenging. This program is designed for children who already recognize most letters but have had limited success in learning to form them. The manual includes a timeline for normal writing development, and 133 reproducible worksheets for use in practicing skills.
Developmental Hand Dysfunction (Second Edition) Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
Take advantage of up-to-date theory, assessment, and treatment of prehension from birth through childhood and adolescence to adulthood. Three case studies of children with cerebral palsy—spastic, athetoid, and flaccid—demonstrate normal and atypical prehension development. See the importance of their hand skills in home, school, and community environments—10 years later. Plus, find a new foreword by the pediatrician of two of the children.
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Fine Motor Dysfunction Therapeutic Strategies in the Classroom
Take advantage of more than 590 pages of activities, ideas, and compensatory strategies Now you can have helpful ideas and activities that are reproducible and ready to use. These remediating and compensating strategies help you adapt regular classroom programming and materials for your preschool and school-age clients. Illustrated sheets help teachers and parents understand why a child is having difficulty with fine motor tasks. The activities and strategies give examples of ways to improve the child's performance. This task-specific approach also enhances children's self-image by helping them participate with greater success in school activities.
Fine Motor Dysfunction–CD Version
The CD-ROM version of Fine Motor Dysfunction offers flexibility and convenience for therapists working with preschool and school-age children with fine motor dysfunctions. All of the best-selling book's 593 pages are included on one compact disc, along with a user's manual. The software helps you develop and customize activity programs to better target the needs of individual clients. Tracking activities that have been provided and monitoring clients' progress are easier with the computer-generated results. Edit and print the instruction sheets with or without illustrations to give to teachers and parents for use in the classroom or at home. Create an activity program that includes an individualized cover page.
Hands at Work and Play Developing Fine Motor Skills at School and Home
Work with teachers and parents to refine coordination in at-risk 5 to 7 year olds. Work in small groups integrating sensory motor activities with manipulatives for cutting, coloring, and writing. You'll receive reproducible materials including screening methods, 88 illustrated worksheets, alphabet worksheets, instructor aids, and weekly parent letters. Hands at Work and Play is divided into three fine motor programs spanning kindergarten through first grade.
Loops and Other Groups: A Kinesthetic Writing System
Use movement patterns to teach cursive writing—imaginative approach makes learning fun. Help your 2nd grade through high school students with learning disabilities and perceptual delays learn cursive writing—along with their nondisabled peers in a typical mainstreamed classroom. Letters are taught in groups that share common movement patterns. For example, a, d, g, q, and c can be visualized on a clock face, and are called "Clock Climbers. "Easy-to-remember motor and memory cues help students visualize and verbalize while experiencing the "feel" of the letter. Most students can learn formations of all lower-case letters in just six weeks.
Miller Function & Participation Scales
Assess a child’s functional performance related to school participation
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Minnesota Handwriting Assessment
Now there's a tool for evaluating handwriting that addresses manuscript and D'Nealian print Use the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment with first and second grade students to analyze handwriting skills, including standard manuscript and D'Nealian styles of print. This test has normative information, substantiating its test/retest reliability. Use the test to identify how students are performing in relationship to their peers. It also demonstrates progress as a result of intervention. Scores are based on rate and five quality categories— Legibility, Form, Alignment, Size, Spacing. Test students individually or in groups.
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Motor Skills Acquisition Checklist
Use this checklist to identify and understand normal infant development. As a companion to the best-selling Motor Skills Acquisition in the First Year, this convenient checklist helps you to identify the proper milestones for each month of development from neonatal to 12 months. Use the checklist to gain insight to the normal motor development and movements in infants, to monitor motor development over time, and to help treat infants with motor development delays. Follow a child's progress with up to 4 evaluations per checklist.
Motor Skills Acquisition in the First Year: An Illustrated Guide to Normal Development
Achieve a greater understanding of normal development with Lois Bly's illustrated guide. Use this comprehensive resource to detect the development of different motor skills during the first year of life. Discover how specific motor components build the foundation for babies to achieve developmental milestones. You'll find that the progression of skills is clearly illustrated by remarkable photographs. Noted physical therapist Lois Bly clarifies the difference between normal variations and pathology. Follow the monthly progression that's enhanced by 300 photographs. You'll find an informative discussion that includes an overview and specific developmental characteristics.
Normal Development of Functional Motor Skills The First Year of Life
Learn from renowned authors with one of the most complete normal development resource available. The complete resource you've been waiting for is now available. Add this comprehensive resource to your professional library today. You'll benefit from the expertise of these prominent NDT instructors. This illustrated book focuses on the normal development of infants birth through 12 months. Use Normal Development of Functional Motor Skills as a guideline for assessing functional motor levels in children. The first year of life is grouped into five developmental stages— 1-2 months, 3-5 months, 6 months, 7-9 months, 10-12 months.
Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, Second Edition (PDMS–2)
Combine in-depth assessment with training or remediation of gross and fine motor skills. This early childhood motor development program contains six subtests that assess the motor skills of children from birth through 5 years. The new illustrated guide to administering and scoring provides detailed descriptions of each item. The subtests are—Reflexes, Stationary, Locomotion, Object Manipulation, Grasping, and Visual-Motor Integration. Composite scores available include Gross Motor Quotient, Fine Motor Quotient, and Total Motor Quotient. The test contains new normative data representative of the current U. S. population. The Peabody Motor Activities Program (P–MAP), included in the complete kit, is the instruction/treatment program of the PDMS–2.
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Posture and Fine Motor Assessment of Infants
Use this early intervention assessment tool in a clinical or medical setting to determine if a 2- to 12-month-old child's motor skills are developmentally delayed. The assessment yields criterion-referenced scores and information that can be used to plan intervention and treatment programs. The results can also be used to document incremental progress over short time periods. The assessment is based on the dynamical systems theory and on the therapist's non-intrusive observation of the child's posture and fine motor abilities. The parent's presence during the evaluation is encouraged. The evaluation takes just 25 to 30 minutes.
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PT Activities for Pediatric Groups
Physical therapists now have an excellent resource to assist with children ages 3-5 years who have physical disabilities. Select from a variety of hands-on activities that are appropriate for small groups of children with similar abilities. The structure of the activities assists in the development of gross motor skills. The group therapy setting also encourages social interaction and increases self-confidence. The activities are also appropriate for carryover use at home. Reproducible activity cards with large type contain a description of the main activity, so that other adults can help the therapist conduct the group.
Spatial, Temporal, and Physical Analysis of Motor Control A Comprehensive Guide to Reflexes and Reactions
Practical information to analyze elements of involuntary movements and automatic reactions with the developing infant or the child who has central nervous system deficits. This resource provides both students and experienced practitioners with a comprehensive overview and historical perspective of the theories of motor control and introduces the Spatial, Temporal, and Physical Theory of Motor Control.
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Test of Gross Motor Development, Second Edition (TGMD–2)
Identify infants and young children who may benefit from early intervention. This norm-referenced measure of common gross motor skills assists in identifying children ages 3 through 10 years who are significantly behind their peers in gross motor skill development and who should be eligible for special education services in physical education. Two subtests included are Locomotor and Object Control. Detailed descriptions and illustrations assist you in administering the test in less than 20 minutes. Use the results to help you develop instructional programs, monitor progress, evaluate treatment, and conduct further research in gross motor development. All new normative information is keyed to the projected 2000 U. S.
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The Infanib A Reliable Method for the Neuromotor Assessment of Infants
Determine the tone and posture of 4- to 18-month-old infants with this effective assessment tool. Use to evaluate infants who are born prematurely, treated in neonatal intensive care, affected by sickness such as meningitis and heart failure, or developing slowly. Improve your ability to assess infants with these well-researched techniques. You'll have scoring guidelines and a concise two-page assessment form to measure and score results. Keep your heavy caseload under control with computer-compatible forms. A-level product; see Ordering Information.
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The T.I.M.E.® Toddler and Infant Motor Evaluation A Standardized Assessment
Assess quality of movement using this tool Lucy Jane Miller brings you the NDT- and SI-based assessment you've been waiting for. Now you can evaluate the overall quality of infant and toddler movement rather than isolated skills. Use this diagnostic assessment to measure changes in children, birth to 3 1/2 years old, who have atypical motor development. Obtain standard scores on five subtests and track change over time using individual growth scores. Test with confidence using this nationally standardized assessment. You'll have reliable and valid scores based on six years of comprehensive research. Consider the validity of parent-elicited play and naturalistic sequences of movement.
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