Solution Focused Task Oriented Movement Therapy and Training

PDF downloads for guidelines and checklists
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Principles of  family centered, task oriented approach to early intervention 
Overview of evidence to support EI
Gudelines for implementing SF-TO assessment and intervention
Using progress along developmental trajectories
Understanding infant development and learning 
A series of tutorials  
Active mobilization 
An alternative to passive stretching  

Games to promote infant engagement 
Shaping the environment for active engagement 
Knowing how to motivate infants to move, explore and engage with the social and physical environment at different ages and levels of ability is an essential tool in the therapist's kit and often is the game breaker.

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. Femoral anteversion 
  4. Developmental hip dysplasia 
  5. Club foot - muscle imbalance  
  6. Idiopathic toe walking 

Disorders related to atypical brain development 

  1. Pre-term birth 
  2. Cerebral palsy 
  3. Cortical visual impairment 
  4. Global developmental delay 
  5. Living with HIV
  6. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)
  7. Infants with Prenatal Substance Exposure
  8. Autism  
  9. Down syndrome 
  10. Developmental coordination disorder 
  11. Genetic disorders