Hand Function in the Child
Hand Function in the Child

Author: Anne Henderson, PhD, OTR

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2005-09-29

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 0323031862

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This comprehensive resource and clinical guide for students and practicing pediatric therapists features current information on the neurological foundations of hand skills, the development of hand skills, and intervention with children who have problems related to hand skills. Covers foundation and development of hand skills, therapeutic intervention, and special problems and approaches. Is readable, concise, and well-organized with a consistent format throughout. Integrates recent research findings and current thinking throughout the text. Emphasizes neuroscience and the hand's sensory function and haptic perception. Applies neuroscience and development frames of reference throughout. Implications for practice included in each chapter. Presents concepts in the foundation/development chapters that are linked with the intervention chapters. Seven new chapters reflect current practice in the field and cover cognition & motor skills, handedness, fine-motor program for preschoolers, handwriting evaluation, splinting the upper extremity of the child, pediatric hand therapy, and efficacy of interventions. Extensively revised content throughout includes new research and theories, new techniques, current trends, and new information sources. 9 new contributors offer authoritative guidance in the field. Over 200 new illustrations demonstrate important concepts with new clinical photographs and line drawings. Over 50 new tables and boxes highlight important information. An updated and expanded glossary defines key terms.

Assessment of Children's Hand Skills
Assessment of Children's Hand Skills

Author: Chi-Wen Chien

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11-11

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780992507305

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The ACHS is a naturalistic observational instrument that assesses 2- to 12-year-old children's hand skill performance when engaged in various types of daily activities in everyday contexts. The ACHS is developed for occupational therapists, and potential users may also include other child-related professionals (eg, paediatricians, neurologists, physiotherapists, developmental psychologists, and educators) and researchers who are involved in completion of children's hand skill assessments. This User's manual presents detailed definitions, examples, and scoring criteria of a comprehensive range of hand skill items for therapists' learning about evaluating children's real-life hand skill performance. It also contains information about scoring interpretation of assessment results as well as development and validation of the ACHS.The key features of the ACHS include: 1. Reflect assessment of real-life hand skill performance 2. Include a comprehensive range of hand skills and activities for assessments 3. Be applicable for children with varied health conditions and a wide age range 4. Incorporate a family-centred approach to assessment 5. Be based on a naturalistic observational format

Clinician's Handbook of Child Behavioral Assessment
Clinician's Handbook of Child Behavioral Assessment

Author: Michel Hersen

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13: 0080490670

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Given the vast amount of research related to behavioral assessment, it is difficult for clinicians to keep abreast of new developments. In recent years, there have been advances in assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning, treatment strategies for specific disorders, and considerations of new ethical and legal issues. Keeping track of advances requires monitoring diverse resources limited to specific disorders, many of which give short shrift to child assessment, overlooking developmental considerations. Much of the existing literature is either theoretical/research in focus or clinical in nature. Nowhere are the various aspects of child behavioral assessment placed in a comprehensive research/clinical context, nor is there much integration as to conceptualization and treatment planning. The Clinician's Handbook of Child Behavioral Assessment was created to fill this gap, summarizing critical information for child behavioral assessment in a single source. The Clinician's Handbook of Child Behavioral Assessment provides a single source for understanding new developments in this field, cutting across strategies, techniques, and disorders. Assessment strategies are presented in context with the research behind those strategies, along with discussions of clinical utility, and how assessment and conceptualization fit in with treatment planning. The volume is organized in three sections, beginning with general issues, followed by evaluations of specific disorders and problems, and closing with special issues. To ensure cross chapter consistency in the coverage of disorders, these chapters are formatted to contain an introduction, assessment strategies, research basis, clinical utility, conceptualization and treatment planning, a case study, and summary. Special issue coverage includes child abuse assessment, classroom assessment, behavioral neuropsychology, academic skills problems, and ethical-legal issues. Suitable for beginning and established clinicians in practice, this handbook will provide a ready reference toward effective child behavioral assessment.

Pediatric Skills for Occupational Therapy Assistants - E-Book
Pediatric Skills for Occupational Therapy Assistants - E-Book

Author: Jean W. Solomon

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 0323291635

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UNIQUE! Demonstrates how concepts apply to practice with video clips on the Evolve website that exhibit pediatric clients involved in a variety of occupational therapy interventions. UNIQUE! Prepares you for new career opportunities with content on emerging practice areas such as community systems. UNIQUE! Offers new assessment and intervention strategies with the addition of content on Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) assessments and physical agent modalities (PAMS). Provides the latest information on current trends and issues such as childhood obesity, documentation, neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT), and concepts of elongation.

Occupation-Centred Practice with Children
Occupation-Centred Practice with Children

Author: Sylvia Rodger

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1119057752

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Occupation-Centred Practice with Children remains the only occupational therapy book which supports the development and implementation of occupation-centred practice with children. Drawing on the latest occupational therapy theory and research, this new edition has been fully updated throughout, and includes new chapters on occupational transitions for children and young people, assessing children’s occupations and participation, intervention within schools, the arts and children’s occupational opportunities, as well as using animals to support children’s occupational engagement. Key features: Written by an international expert team of contributors. Each chapter begins with preliminary questions to assist with consideration of current knowledge, and then reflection questions at the conclusion to allow revision of key content in order to support independent learning. Highly practical, with a range of case studies, key point summaries, reflective questions, best practice guidelines, and a range of tools, interventions and techniques to aid applications to practice. A new appendix outlining all the assessments referred to in the book has now been included. Occupation-Centred Practice with Children is a practical, theoretically grounded and evidence based guide to contemporary occupational therapy practice, and is important reading for all occupational therapy students and therapists wishing to make a real difference to children and their families’ lives.

Manual Skills, Handedness, and the Organization of Language in the Brain
Manual Skills, Handedness, and the Organization of Language in the Brain

Author: Gregory Króliczak

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 2889459683

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Whereas the cerebral specialization for skilled manual actions (praxis) seems closely linked to dominance for language, with both functions left lateralized in the vast majority of humans, the neural correlates of hand preference are still less well understood. Indeed, as a combination of inherited and non-inherited genomic factors (i.e., direct parental and concealed environmental contributions), handedness – in contrast to language – is less likely to have strong genetic indices and clearly lateralized functional organization. What about eye dominance, unimanual and bimanual object manipulation, and gestures, or attentional systems and the related egocentric or allocentric coding of space? Are these different categories functionally and structurally interconnected? Is their development and contribution to task performance linked, even if they are differently lateralized? How are they connected to language learning or its development? In trying to understand these relationships and their neural underpinnings we obtain a new insight into fundamental human behaviors, which depend either on shared or distinct cerebral resources that must, nevertheless, be harmonized by higher-order cerebral processing. In this Research Topic we assembled a dozen of original research contributions, as well as articles with more theoretically-driven perspectives, that directly speak to these issues. Hopefully this work will serve as a foundation for further discussions and will stimulate new research in this fascinating domain.

A Practical Guide to Child Observation and Assessment
A Practical Guide to Child Observation and Assessment

Author: Christine Hobart

Publisher: Nelson Thornes

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780748785261

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Packed with examples of observation techniques, skills and documented examples, this text covers the child observation components of all major child-care courses, in particular CACHE CCE and DCE, NVQ Level 2 and 3 as well as BTEC.

Assessment of Young Developmentally Disabled Children
Assessment of Young Developmentally Disabled Children

Author: Theodore D. Wachs

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1475793065

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Our knowledge of the cognitive and social-emotional functioning of developmentally disabled infants and preschoolers derives, in large part, from our assessment of such children. This book has been developed to familiarize readers with the characteristics of developmentally disabled children, and to introduce to readers aspects of measurement that are of relevance to the assessment of atypical infants and preschoolers. The book has been developed with clinicians and prospective clinicians in mind. These are individuals who are committed to the care and education of developmentally disabled infants and preschoolers and the families of those children. The book has thus been written to provide support for the use of assessment data in planning early interven tion programs. Of special note in the development of this edited book is that it is divided into four major parts with interrelated chapters in each part. The authors of chapters in Parts II and III had access to the chapters in Part I before writing their chapters. The summary chap ters found in Part IV were similarly written by authors having access to all chapters in Parts I-III. This approach to the development of an edited book was chosen as a way of ensuring an integration of major concepts throughout the book. This process is also a reflection of our belief that assessment is an interdisciplinary process, involving the syn thesis of a number of diverse interests.