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Fine motor skills for children with Down syndrome : a guide for parents and professionals

Summary: "Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome, now available in a completely revised third edition, is an accessible guide to helping toddlers, teens, and even adults develop the hand skills they need for daily living. Written by a veteran occupational therapist and parent of an adult with Down syndrome, it presents an easy-to-understand visual model of the building blocks of fine motor development--stability, bilateral coordination, and sensation--which form the base for dexterity"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781606132593
ISBN: 1606132598
Physical Description: print
xvi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Bethesda, MD : Woodbine House, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 A Model of Hand Skill Development 1 -- A visual model of the development of fine motor skills -- Definitions of the components of fine motor skill development: -- 2 Building on What Is There: Learning Step by Step 9 -- Process of learning new skills -- Breaking down activities into steps -- Motivation -- Adapting the environment -- Consultation with an occupational therapist -- 3 Fine Motor Development in Children with Down Syndrome 25 -- Physical/medical characteristics of Down syndrome -- Skills to encourage at stages of development: -- 4 Early Movement in Babies with Down Syndrome 43 -- Early arm and hand control: Relationship to developmental milestones -- How to help your baby -- Stability Supports -- Grandma's and Grandpa's List -- 5 First Building Block: Stability 61 -- Stability in children with Down syndrome -- Activities for body stability, ball skills, shoulder stability -- Grandma's and Grandpa's List -- 6 Second Building Block: Bilateral Coordination 75 -- Development of bilateral coordination -- Activities for bilateral coordination -- Grandma's and Grandpa's List -- 7 Third Building Block: Sensation 87 -- Sensory-motor loop -- Development of sensory skills -- Activities for sensory awareness and discrimination -- Grandma's and Grandpa's List -- 8 Dexterity 99 -- Components of dexterity -- Grasp and release: -- Pinch and thumb control: Activity suggestions -- Finger coordination: -- Wrist movement: Activity suggestions -- Grandma's and Grandpa's List -- 9 Daily Living Skills: School Tasks 133 -- Cutting -- Development of Pencil grasp -- Preprinting skills -- Drawing, painting and coloring -- Printing -- Cursive writing -- Accommodations and Modifications -- Computers and Technology -- Keyboard Skills -- Incorporating fine motor goals into your child's education plan -- Grandma's and Grandpa's List -- 10 Daily Living and Independent Living Skills 191 -- Self-help skills -- Household activities -- Leisure and recreation skills -- Independent living and work skills -- 11 Sensory Processing 219 -- Sensory processing in children with Down syndrome -- Signs of sensory processing difficulties -- Strategies and activities for sensory processing difficulties -- Down syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder -- 12 Hands Up! 253 -- Conclusion.