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The Solution Focused Task Oriented Approach to Movement Therapy |
| Understanding infant development and learning A series of tutorials |
| Active mobilization An alternative to passive stretching |
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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. |
Family centered therapy and models for intervention
- SfATask Oriented Movement Therapy for Infants and Toddlers (TOMT&T)
- Solution Focused Coaching in Pediatric Rehabilitation
- GAME approach to early intervention - a RCT
- Small Step Program - RCT and principles
- Building the case for a principled approach to EI Four principles we can all agree on, and one important idea that is often neglected
- Family centered practice and collaborative goal setting
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