Sinossi
This multi-authored book brings together workers from the different disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, physical therapy, neurology and paediatrics. The fundamental mechanisms of movement are discussed, methods of recording movement are considered, and the educational and therapeutic applications of movement are described. It is hoped that this work will draw attention to the importance of movement for child development, and thus stimulate further scientific study of this important subject. Paediatricians, physical therapists and teachers - children - will find this book of especial value in helping them to understand how impairment of movement can affect a child's development.
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Contenuti
Part I. The Importance of Movement for Child Development: 1. How and why children move; 2. The consequence of impaired movement; 3. Movement disturbances: patterns of overactivity and behaviour disturbanes in children; Part II. The Development of Movement and Motor Skills: 4. The neurological basis of movement; 5. Components of neuromuscular control; 6. Studies of neuromuscular control in normal and spastic individuals; 7. Training spastic individuals to achieve better neuromuscular control using electromyographic feedback; 8. Movement, action and skill; 9. Observing motor skill: a developmental approach; Part III. Recording Children's Movements: 10. Recording children's movements: the development of an observational method; 11. Movement notations and the recording of normal and abnormal movements; 12. Objective methods and implications of recording children's behaviour; Part IV. Therapeutic and Educational Applications: 13. A developmental intervention programme designed to overcome the effects of impaired movement in spina bifida infants; 14. The rôle of music in the stimulation of movement; 15. The rôle of physical education in the stimulation of movement; 16. Learning through bodily experience; 17. Stimulation of movement: a review of therapeutic techniques; 18. Implications of movement for parents, therapists, teachers and doctors; Name index; Subject index.
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