Pam's Mission
To encourage and persuade Early Intervention PTs and OT's to adopt an evidence based approach to clinical reasoning and intervention with an emphasis on function and participation 
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Pam's Blog: Promoting Solution Focused-Task Oriented EI 
Tutorials in perceptual-motor development
Infant development 0-15 months index 
Understanding development and motor learning 
Guidelines: Assessment and Intervention 
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Working with children 

  1. Start with abilities, not impairments and disabilities
  2. Enriched environments for promoting development 
  3. Temperament, motivation and activity levels 
  4. Engaging infants and children: mirroring, building trust
  5. All therapy should be grounded in a positive relationship

Understanding motor development and control 

  1. Infant perceptual-motor development is shaped by experience 
  2. The infants's emerging sense of body and self
  3. Variability is needed for learning new adaptive perceptual-motor  behavior 
  4. Ways to enhance infant perceptual-motor development 
  5. Attention is the magic ingredient for learning new hand (fine motor) skills

Common developmental disorders 

Disorders of the neuromuscular systems 

  1. Low muscles tone 
  2. Joint hypermobility 
  3. Club foot - muscle imbalance  

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