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.
Achieve early independence through balance training. Make these guarded unassisted balance activities part of your treatment sessions and home programs. The activities, which integrate balance training with treatment goals and strategies, are appropriate for children ages 1-18 with conditions such as myelomeningocele, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or balance deficits.
Accurately evaluate functional disabilities with score forms and an easy-to-understand manual. Assess key functional capabilities and performance in children ages six months to seven years with this practical resource. Use it to evaluate older children whose functional abilities are lower than those of seven-year-olds without disabilities. Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) lets you measure both capability and performance by observing — Self-care, Mobility, Social function. To appraise a child correctly, determine functional skills in which mastery and competence are demonstrated. PEDI helps you identify treatment progress and recommends areas of new functional intervention.
Get your pediatric clients back on the right track with these strengthening exercises. Use these playful activities in your physical and occupational therapy programs to increase the strength of clients who have had selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) surgery, myelomeningocele, Guillain-Barré, spinal cord injury, or orthopedic surgery. You'll be able to customize exercise programs to meet the needs of individual clients. Save valuable time with reproducible instruction sheets you can give to caregivers, parents, teachers, and paraprofessionals.
Enable children to participate in goal setting with an innovative measure
Detect autism at an early age to begin intervention
Teach parents how to stimulate and develop motor skills in their children. This manual provides you with the appropriate therapeutic play activities. Use this collection of more than 70 reproducible activity sheets with parents of children birth to 3 years old who have developmental delays or who are at risk. Integrate activities into a family's daily routine. Easy-to-read sheets serve as great reminders at home for all caregivers. Clear illustrations and nontechnical instructions are ideal for parents with low parenting/play skills or who have limited English proficiency.
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.
Offers an in-depth look at the development, evaluation, and treatment of children with cerebral palsy. Using a neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) approach, author Marcia Hornbrook Stamer provides a detailed, multidisciplinary book about the development, evaluation, and treatment of children with cerebral palsy. She includes information about the different types of cerebral palsy, the various systems to be considered, and general treatment strategies. Close to 250 line drawings are also included.
This essential resource, now updated and expanded for mealtime and feeding development. This newly revised and referenced edition, by the authors of the best-selling Pre-Feeding Skills, is a must for pediatric feeding specialists working with clients from birth to adolescence. The book contains 12 new chapters with information about mealtime roles and influences, supportive diagnostic testing, gastrointestinal influences on feeding, autism, sensory influences on feeding, children who do not eat enough to grow, foundations for mealtime, and oral motor skills limitations. In addition, all sections have been greatly expanded to incorporate current research, references, and trends, especially the chapters on treatment, tube feeding, nutrition, blindness, prematurity, and anatomy.
Learn from ten distinguished service providers about creating a classroom to serve preschool-age children with autism. The book's contributors address the structure, financing, staffing, assessment procedures, curriculum, and support services of their programs.
Develop a successful individualized exercise program illustrations of 433 exercises in passive, active assistive, active resistive, isometric, and stretching stages. This complete collection of reproducible exercise sheets, divided by major body area can be used with adolescent and adult clients with orthopedic and neurological involvement who need to regain strength and range of motion. Each exercise sheet has space for length of time to hold a muscle contraction and for the number of repetitions of a movement. Categories of exercises include facial, upper extremities, lower extremities, neck, and trunk (including breathing). Along with the exercise sheets, you'll also have a page of general guidelines for performing the exercises.
This book provides a practical resource for enhancing the social competence of children between the ages of 3 and 12 years. It emphasizes peer interaction with age appropriate activities for effecting changes in social and play behavior, self-regulation, communication, prosocial skills, and social decision making. Use the book for program planning for children with special developmental, behavioral, or learning needs in segregated or inclusive settings. Critical information is provided on the assessment of social behavior and intervention to promote it. The book also includes detailed strategies and activities that have been successfully field tested for promoting social competence.
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.