Fine Motor Skills In Children With Down Syndrome

Author : Maryanne Bruni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children
ISBN : UOM:39015050784340

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Fine Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome by Maryanne Bruni Pdf

Written for parents, health professionals and teachers, this is a guide to understanding and developing fine motor skills in children with Down Syndrome. The author draws on her expertise as a occupational therapist and parent to show readers how to help children develop the hand skills required for such tasks as holding a pencil, cutting with scissors, or using a computer. The author is sensitive to the medical, physical and psychological characteristics of children with Down Syndrome and how these can effect motor development. Dozens of articles are provided, complete with photographs and step-by-step instructions, which are appropriate for children in infancy to early adolescence. In addition to hand skills, some cover basic gross motor skills, which help to lay the foundation for fine motor development. Readers can choose among different categories of skills - self-help, school activities, leisure and recreation - and easily incorporate most activities into daily home or school routines.

Author : Maryanne Bruni
Publisher : Special Needs Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Children
ISBN : 1606132598

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Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome by Maryanne Bruni Pdf

The popular book, Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome is now available in a completely revised third edition. The author, an occupational therapist and parent of an adult with Down syndrome, describes how the characteristics of Down syndrome can impact the acquisition and progression of fine motor skills. She presents a thorough overview of the building blocks of fine motor development, from infancy through to adulthood: Early arm and hand control; Stability; Bilateral coordination; Sensation; and Dexterity. Use the book's step-by-step activities to build daily living skills for home and school: Scissor skills; Pencil grasp development; Pre-printing, printing & cursive writing; Keyboard skills; Computer & tablet skills; and Dressing, grooming, and feeding skills. Throughout the book, the author suggests ways to incorporate fine motor skill development opportunities into as many day-to-day activities as possible, recognizing how impractical it is to constantly be in "therapy" mode with a child. Suggestions for gift ideas are offered in "Grandma's and Grandpa's list" at the end of each chapter. With expanded and updated information on fine motor skills and computer and personal electronic device use, keyboarding skills, postural support, sensory processing, and the adult years, readers will have at their fingertips a cornucopia of information and guidance to support the fine motor development of children and adults.

Author : Maryanne Bruni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Down syndrome
ISBN : 1890627674

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Fine Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome by Maryanne Bruni Pdf

This book explains the best practices and procedures for helping children master the finger and hand skills needed for home and school activities.

Author : Patricia C. Winders
Publisher : Special Needs Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Down syndrome
ISBN : 1606130099

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Gross Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome by Patricia C. Winders Pdf

Revision of: Gross motor skills in children with Down syndrome. 1997.

Author : Dante Cicchetti,Marjorie Beeghly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521386675

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Children with Down Syndrome by Dante Cicchetti,Marjorie Beeghly Pdf

This volume offers a state-of-art review of what is known about young children with Down syndrome from a developmental perspective. The underlying theme of the book is that children with Down syndrome, despite their constitutional anomalies and their additional medical and biological problems, can be understood from a normative developmental framework. Interventions guided by developmental principles in the biological, educational and psychological realms are more likely to result in informed knowledge about how best to help children with Down syndrome and their families. Children with Down Syndrome will appeal to researchers, theoreticians, educators, and clinicians in a range of disciplines, as well as to parents, social policymakers, and other advocates for the best interests of children with Down syndrome.

Author : Libby Kumin
Publisher : Woodbine House
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 1606130668

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Early Communication Skills for Children with Down Syndrome by Libby Kumin Pdf

Newly revised and updated, this compassionate and authoritative guide is based on Libby Kumin's more than thirty years experience working with children and adolescents with Down syndrome and their families. As the founder of the Down Syndrome Center for Excellence at Loyola University in Maryland, she draws on her vast experience to show parents how they can support and encourage their child's speech and language development from birth to age 6 (or when a child can form 2- to 3- word sentences). Parents and teachers learn how to work through characteristic challenges, including hearing loss, intelligibility issues, apraxia (difficulty planning oral-motor movements), or a slower pace of development. Families soon see that many children with Down syndrome are natural and willing communicators. In a warm and conversational style, the author shares her professional expertise in parent-friendly terms. She uses specific examples of difficulties and successes to illustrate the concepts behind speech and language development, and includes the latest research supporting current early intervention and preschool approaches that can be used at home and in schools. This third edition of EARLY COMMUNICATION SKILLS features expanded information on the needs of children with apraxia, dual diagnosis of autism and Down syndrome, and updated terminology and information on special education law. A new chapter explains how technology and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) ? smartphones, iPods, iPads, and apps ? can help with speech and language, foster communication, and provide inexpensive transitional language systems. Dozens of forms are now included on a CD-ROM to be used for assessment, developing treatment plans, and keeping detailed records of progress. Teachers, speech-language pathologists, and parents will love the convenience of printing multiple copies of forms and organizing information for IEP meetings or periodic evaluations.

Author : Libby Kumin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015050800575

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Communication Skills in Children with Down Syndrome by Libby Kumin Pdf

Covers speech and language development in children with Down syndrome from infancy through to early adolescence, and what parents and carers can to to help maximise their child's communication potential.

Author : Cheryl Missiuna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136394751

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Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder by Cheryl Missiuna Pdf

Take a cognitive approach to treating children with DCD! Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is frustrating for the children who must deal with it every day, for their parents, and for the professionals who work with these children. Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder offers new hope to children who are exeriencing this distinctive movement skill syndrome. It suggests ways they can overcome the challenges they encounter wherever motor skills are needed: in the classroom, on the playground, and at home doing self-care. This groundbreaking volume challenges pediatric therapists to examine the assessment and intervention approaches that are currently being used with children who have DCD. Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder offers new model that draws on research in the fields of motor learning, educational psychology, cognitive strategies, and occupational therapy. In addition to theoretical background, this book provides a detailed protocol for CO-OP (Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance), an intervention that has been shown to facilitate problem-solving and enhance motor skill acquisition for children with DCD. Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder offers a comprehensive discussion of the disorder, including: identification and assessment of children with DCD analysis of the Bruininks Osortesky Test of Motor Proficiency and the Movement Assessment Battery for Children the theoretical and empirical basis for current treatment approaches new motor learning theories and their implications for treatment the systematic development and evaluation of the CO-OP approach, from early case studies through videotape analysis and retrospective chart review Based on six years of systematic, cooperative research, Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder demonstrates the success of a unique cognitive approach to intervention with these frustrated children.

Author : Patricia C. Winders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Down syndrome
ISBN : UOM:39015050782955

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Gross Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome by Patricia C. Winders Pdf

Children with Down syndrome master gross motor skills -- everything from rolling over to running but need additional help and encouragement to maximise development. In this book the author, a physical therapist, shares her experience gained from sixteen years specialising in the motor development of children with Down Syndrome. This book provides parents and professionals with essential information about motor development including the impact of temperament and the effect of physical and medical conditions associated with Down syndrome.

Author : H.T.A Whiting,M.G. Wade
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789400944626

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Themes in Motor Development by H.T.A Whiting,M.G. Wade Pdf

This book is divided into Sections. Each Section is devoted to a particular theme in Motor Development and comprises two or more contributions. The order of presentation is largely fortuitous and does not reflect any value judgement on the part of the editors as to the importance of anyone theme in comparison to others addressed' in the book. This volume is to be seen as a companion volume to 'Motor Development in Children: Aspects of coordination and control' in which the more general issues in motor development presented during the Institute are published. Together, the two volumes provide both a general and a theme specific approach to this expanding field of knowledge. XI PREFACE Books and conferences, on what in North America is euphemistically termed motor development, have been few and far between in the past 25 years. This is not to say that the study of how children acquire and develop motor skills has not been a subject on which scientists have focused their attention. In the United States in the 1930's and 1940's, Bayley (1935) and Gesell and Amatruda (1947) described and scaled the rates at which young children acquired motor skills. In Europe, the development of childrens' motor behaviour was of theoretical interest to Piaget (1952).

Author : Jane Case-Smith,Rosemarie Bigsby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761644806

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Posture and Fine Motor Assessment of Infants by Jane Case-Smith,Rosemarie Bigsby Pdf

Author : Klaus Libertus,Petra Hauf
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889451593

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Motor Skills and Their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development by Klaus Libertus,Petra Hauf Pdf

Motor skills are a vital part of healthy development and are featured prominently both in physical examinations and in parents’ baby diaries. It has been known for a long time that motor development is critical for children’s understanding of the physical and social world. Learning occurs through dynamic interactions and exchanges with the physical and the social world, and consequently movements of eyes and head, arms and legs, and the entire body are a critical during learning. At birth, we start with relatively poorly developed motor skills but soon gain eye and head control, learn to reach, grasp, sit, and eventually to crawl and walk on our own. The opportunities arising from each of these motor milestones are profound and open new and exciting possibilities for exploration and interactions, and learning. Consequently, several theoretical accounts of child development suggest that growth in cognitive, social, and perceptual domains are influences by infants’ own motor experiences. Recently, empirical studies have started to unravel the direct impact that motor skills may have other domains of development. This volume is part of this renewed interest and includes reviews of previous findings and recent empirical evidence for associations between the motor domain and other domains from leading researchers in the field of child development. We hope that these articles will stimulate further research on this interesting question.

Author : Jennifer Graf Groneberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440634710

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Road Map to Holland by Jennifer Graf Groneberg Pdf

An exceptional memoir that provides emotional insight and practical advice. It's like planning a trip to Italy, only to get off the plane and discover you're actually in Holland. You need a new road map, and fast... When Jennifer Groneberg and her husband learned they'd be having twin boys, their main concern was whether they'd need an addition on their house. Then, five days after Avery and Bennett were born, Avery was diagnosed with Down syndrome. Here, Jennifer shares the story of what followed. She dealt with doctors-some who helped, and some who were disrespectful or even dangerous. She saw some relationships in her life grow stronger, while severing ties with people who proved unsupportive. And she continues to struggle to find balance in the hardships and joys of raising a child with special needs. This book is a resource, a companion for parents, and above all, a story of the love between a mother and her son-as she learns that Avery is exactly the child she never knew she wanted.

Author : David Sugden,Mary Chambers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004899840

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Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder by David Sugden,Mary Chambers Pdf

The term Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is used to describe a group of children who have difficulty. with tasks involving movement such that it interferes with their daily living or academic progress. As with other developmental disorders such as autistic spectrum disorder, attention deficit disorder and dyslexia, DCD is now a prominent concern of both researchers and practitioners. This text is aimed at both researchers and professionals who work in a practical manner with the condition and includes professionals in health, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, health visitors, paediatricians, and - in the educational field - teachers and others who are in daily contact with the children - their parents. The essence of the text is that work with children should be guided by research evidence driving the clinical practice which in turn raisies more questions for research. The authors in this text have both experience in research and are engaged in the day-to-day clinical work with children and bring both of these to bear in the chapters they have written.

Author : Natalie Hale
Publisher : Special Reads for Special Needs
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1088075223

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Down Syndrome Parenting 101 by Natalie Hale Pdf

About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award Winner, Favorite New Special-Needs Parenting Book! The author-equal parts mentor, humorist, enthusiast, and realist-takes readers by the hand and walks them through the various life stages, experiences, and people they will encounter with their child. Humor, insight, information, and rock-solid advice guides the reader from birth to independent living in this diamond of a book. Ms. Hale's warm friend-to-friend voice draws in the reader with insights and experiences gleaned not only from raising her own son, but as a teacher in the broad Down syndrome community, she gives us a treasure-trove of meaningful stories from many families. Foreword by Martha Beck, mother of an adult with Down syndrome and author of the New York Times bestseller, Expecting Adam. Down Syndrome Parenting 101 offers inspired takes on a host of important issues, including a deep dive into the extraordinary abilities of individuals with Down syndrome, interacting with medical professionals, literacy, discipline, school, transitioning, independence, and much more. Chapters are short, a plus for busy parents, and can be read individually or sequentially. Throughout, many characters-the author's son, friends, and students-appear, serving as anecdotal evidence in support of the author's points and adding to the storytelling effect. Turn to this upbeat book for credible, realistic advice and for a dose of bibliotherapy when you need validation and perspective. Also check out Natalie Hale's book for teaching reading, Whole Child Reading, and her book on money management skills for young adults with developmental delays, Managing My Money: Banking and Budgeting Basics.