Short description
This guide describes and illustrates more than 100 activities for parents and professionals to practice with infants and children from birth through age six. Checklists and statistics allow readers to track, plan, and maximize a child's progress.
Long description
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.
Review
This monograph represents the single most important and user friendly resource on gross motor skills in children with Down syndrome to date.