DESCRIPCION:
The 4th edition of Finnie""s Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy at Home has been updated to reflect the current practices of today. It aims to help parents assist their child with cerebral palsy (CP) towards achieving the most comfortable independence in all activities. It is hoped to show how, by using typical parenting skills, which involve guiding and exposing a child to develop through challenging experiences, the child with CP will also develop. The book is also intended to help professionals and other carers new to this field understand, support and encourage young children with CP and their families.
Over the years since the first edition of this book was written ideas on appropriate therapies have changed and developed. Similarly opinion on early intervention has changed and the method of delivery of service has in some places moved from centralisation to home-based or community provision. The emphasis of this new edition however remains on a holistic approach to the child""s needs seeing the difficulties in relation to the overall development of the child as a unique person from childhood to adulthood.
INDICE:
Chapter 1 Communication between parents and professionals
Chapter 2 Preparing for and coping with hospital appointments, assessments and admissions
Chapter 3 Medical aspects of cerebral palsy: causes, associated problems and management
Chapter 4 The role of different brain-imaging techniques in the diagnosis of cerebral palsy
Chapter 5 Epilepsy in cerebral palsy
Chapter 6 Parents"" problems
Chapter 7 Learning and behaviour: the psychologist""s role
Chapter 8 Emotional health
Chapter 9 Parents"" contribution to early learning: developing a dialogue using touch, sight, hearing and communication
Chapter 10 Understanding movement, both typical and in the child with cerebral palsy
Chapter 11 Handling
Chapter 12 Sleeping
Chapter 13 Feeding
Chapter 14 Lifting and carrying
Chapter 15 Toilet training
Chapter 16 Bathing
Chapter 17 Dressing
Chapter 18 Communication
Chapter 19 Hand function and fine motor activities
Chapter 20 Gross motor development in children with cerebral palsy: what do we know, and how may that knowledge help?
Chapter 21 Chairs, pushchairs and car seats
Chapter 22 Aids to mobility
Chapter 23 Play
Chapter 24 Leisure and fitness
Chapter 25 Deformity: growth and the problems of getting taller
Chapter 26 Orthoses and Children with cerebral palsy
Chapter 27 Spasticity
Chapter 28 Complementary and alternative medicine in cerebral palsy
