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The updated and expanded 2nd edition of "Fine Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome" continues to be a popular, practical guide to understanding fine motor skills in children with Down syndrome and helping them develop these skills from birth through early adolescence. The first edition won a Parent's Choice Award in 1999. The author, an occupational therapist who has worked extensively with children with Down syndrome, is also the parent of a teenager with Down syndrome. She offers parents and professionals dozens of easy, home-and school-based activities, illustrated with black and white photos, which help children gradually acquire the skills they need for fine motor development. Readers learn how to incorporate work on fine motor skills into everyday activities and routines and to emphasise tasks that children can use throughout life - play, self-help, printing, cutting with scissors, and computer use. New to this edition is a chapter on sensory processing and how the sensory system affects behaviour and learning in children with Down syndrome. Parents learn strategies that can help children handle various sensory problems so they can continue to learn daily living skills. Bruni includes new information on determining when a child is ready for 'pre-printing' activities (things a child can do to prepare for trying to print letters) and how to introduce related concepts (up and down; top and bottom; start and stop; left and right). The 2nd edition also includes more information on ways to help children learn self-help skills, such as dressing, using a fork and spoon, and becoming potty trained. This new and improved edition gives parents and professionals the expertise and confidence they need to help children build fine motor abilities and become more independent. This book is useful for parents of children with Down syndrome, early intervention specialists, occupational and physical therapists, and teachers.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a useful resource for carers of a child with Down Syndrome from infancy upwards. It not only deals with the prerequisites to necessary life skills but also the more detailed development of those skills themselves. The author, having had a child with Down Syndrome herself, has obvious awareness of how hard it is, for example, to enable floppy fingers to grasp and successfully use a pair of scissors. The chapters contain both the background information vital in understanding the tasks to be developed as well as ideas and tips on helping the child to attain them. The title may lead the reader to think that the contents would only apply to an older child but actually the book has lots of suggestions on how to help even a baby to start developing the building blocks that will enable success at later more complex tasks. The suggestions given are simple and manageable, they do not require hours of endless tuition but rather give a method for helping the child manage their normal meaningful day to day tasks. The book is informative, well presented, easy to read and realistic in its suggestions. My only criticism is that I felt that it could have contained more ideas and explanations, especially as my child has already past the baby stage.
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Must have reference for pediatric occupational therapist
29 Feb 2000
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Maryanne Bruni has taken the best of both worlds of knowledge-therapist and parent of Down syndrome child--and combined them when she wrote this terrific guide. Listing developmental sequences step by step for scissors and handwriting skills helps me explain to parents what to work on at home and what to expect next. This guide should be in every pediatric facility and early childhood program's library. It covers all the practical hands-on treatment ideas that get glossed over in OT school. Thanks, Maryanne.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
An encouraging help for parents
8 Feb 2000
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent resource for parents of young children with Down syndrome. The author is encouraging and helpful, offering several activities for reaching each goal. Her explanation of the components of fine motor coordination are very helpful in allowing a more complete understanding of the reason why your child is doing each activity he/she does. I consult with this book regularly and it has given our OT some ideas as well!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Easy to read book for both parents and professionals.
17 Feb 2000
Format:Paperback
I am an Occupational Therapist and I work with children with disabilities. I have found this information useful in my own practice and have shared this title with some of my families.
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