Infant motor development /

• Piek, Jan P

• Motor ability in children
• Infants -- Physiology

• Human Kinetics,

• 073600226X :
• 9780736002264 :

• 44.00
• 44.00

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-311) and index.
• Part I: Foundations of Infant Motor Development; Chapter 1: Early Movement Capabilities: The Precursors of Motor Control; Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Motor Development: Traditional and Current Chapter 3: The brain and motor control: Motor development and neural plasticity; Part II: The Development of Voluntary Movement Control; Chapter 4: Development of postural control: Stability, balance and orientation.; Chapter 5: Manual control: Development of reaching and grasping; Chapter 6: Locomotion: The development of creeping and walking; Part III: Assessment of Motor Ability In Infants; Chapter 7: Infant Motor Assessment: Choosing an appropriate test.; Chapter 8: Infant motor assessment: Neurobehavioral and other tests for the newborn.; Chapter 9: Infant motor assessment: Diagnostic and screening tests; Part IV: Motor Control and Developmental Disorders; Chapter 10: Motor development in preterm infants: A special case for assessment and intervention; Chapter 11: Cerebral Palsy: Research and intervention in infancy; Chapter 12 - Down Syndrome: Resarch and intervention in infancy.

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