Infant motor development
Text is organized into four parts covering theory, research, assessment, and intervention. It integrates information from a variety of disciplines to encourage a broad understanding of infant motor development. Topics include the development of voluntary movements such as posture, stability, balance...
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Champaign, IL
Human Kinetics
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Early movement capabilities
- Theoretical approaches to motor development
- Motor control and the brain: motor development and neural plasticity
- Postural control: development of stability, balance, and orientation
- Manual control: development of reaching and grasping
- Locomotion: development of creeping and walking
- Motor assessment tests
- Neurobehavioral motor assessment and other tests
- Diagnostic motor assessment and screening tests
- Motor development in preterm infants
- Cerebral palsy
- Down syndrome