| PDF downloads for guidelines and checklists All the PDF downloads in one place |
| 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 |
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Games to promote infant engagement |
Working with children
- Start with abilities, not impairments and disabilities
- Enriched environments for promoting development
- Temperament, motivation and activity levels
- Engaging infants and children: mirroring, building trust
- All therapy should be grounded in a positive relationship
Understanding motor development and control
- Infant perceptual-motor development is shaped by experience
- Learning through repeated cycles of perception and action
- The infants's emerging sense of body and self
- Variability is needed for learning new adaptive perceptual-motor behavior
- Ways to enhance infant perceptual-motor development
- Attention is the magic ingredient for learning new hand (fine motor) skills
Common developmental disorders
Disorders of the neuromuscular systems
- Low muscles tone
- Joint hypermobility
- Femoral anteversion
- Developmental hip dysplasia
- Club foot - muscle imbalance
- Idiopathic toe walking
Disorders related to atypical brain development
- Pre-term birth
- Cerebral palsy
- Cortical visual impairment
- Global developmental delay
- Living with HIV
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)
- Infants with Prenatal Substance Exposure
- Autism
- Down syndrome
- Developmental coordination disorder
- Genetic disorders