cover image - Hand Function in the Child - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323092548
Copyright: 2006
Publication Date: 09-29-2005
Page Count: 496
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $69.99

Hand Function in the Child - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition

by Anne Henderson, PhD, OTR and Charlane Pehoski, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA

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cover image - Hand Function in the Child - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323092548
Copyright: 2006
Publication Date: 09-29-2005
Page Count: 496
Imprint: Mosby
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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.
  • Part I: Foundation of Hand Skills
    1. Cortical control of hand-object interaction
    2. Anatomy and kinesiology of the hand
    3. Normal and impaired development of force control in precision grip
    4. Perceptual functions of the hand
    5. Reaching and eye-hand coordination
    6. Cognition and motor skills

    Part II: Development of Hand Skills
    7. Hand skill development in the context of infants’ play: birth to two years
    8. Object manipulation in infants and children
    9. Handedness in children
    10. Self-care and hand skill
    11. The development of graphomotor skills

    Part III: Therapeutic Intervention
    12. Intervention for children with hand skill problems
    13. A fine motor program for preschoolers
    14. Evaluation of handwriting
    15. Principles and practices of teaching handwriting
    16. Upper extremity intervention in cerebral palsy: a neurodevelopmental approach
    17. Pediatric hand therapy
    18. Splinting the upper extremity of a child
    19. Efficacy of interventions to enhance hand function
  • Anne Henderson, PhD, OTR, Professor Emeritus, Department of Occupational Therapy, Boston University/Sargent College of Allied Health Professions, Boston, MA, USA and Charlane Pehoski, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Consultant, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Waltham, MA, USA
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