► Open access ► For subscribers (More about a TOMTI subscription)
Sections - Overview
► Development Video Library
► Infant Training Guides
► Toddler Training Guide
Task oriented, evidence based therapy approaches ► Open Access
► SfA Task Oriented Movement Therapy for Infants and Toddlers (TOMT 0-4)
► Function focused, task based approaches to intervention
► Why adopt a task based, goal focused, context oriented approach to intervention?
► GAME approach to early intervention
Motivation, temperament, engagement and play ► Open Access
► All therapy should be grounded in a positive relationship
► How temperament, behavioral inhibition and a cautions nature affect motor learning
► Behaviors needed for successful learning of movement based skills
► Sensory processing disorder or BI and an anxious temperament?
Concepts in motor control – a dynamic systems perspective ► Open Access
Analysis of task performance – a constraints led approach
► Interaction between the task, child and environment
How goals guide movement strategies
► Prospective control: a key element in motor planning
Affordances – what the environment allows
► How toddlers learn about cliffs, gaps, and inclines
► Stepping up and down: how young children adapt their actions to the physical environment
Multisensory integration and sensory reweighting
► Sensory integration and sensory reweighting development in infancy
Postural control: balance and stability
► Postural sway as exploratory behavior
Learning to use surfaces for support
► Using available resources to support exploration
Learning through exploration and experience
► Importance of active engagement
► Perception-actions cycles and exploratory learning
Visual pickup for motor planning
► Vision for catching and other interception tasks
► Looking ahead: visual pickup for planning a walking path
Motor planning
► Crossing the midline - a matter of trunk stability and motor planning
► Bilateral coordination
► Planning for end state comfort
Active mobilization
► What is active mobilization
► Active mobilization for infants and toddlers
Guide to infant motor development, assessment and training
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Principles of assessment and intervention
► Principles of Task Oriented Movement Therapy for Infants (TOMTI)
► Start with abilities
Mobilization for infants
► Introduction to active mobilization
Assessment guidelines
2-3 month period
► 1 Purpose and first impressions
► 2 Assessment in supine
► 3 Assessment in prone
► 4 Pull-to-sit and sitting
► A Pathways.org video Typical and atypical development at 2 months
8-15 months
► 8-12 months with developmental delay
► 12-15 months: What to include in the assessment
► 12 mo plus with marked delay: suggestions for assessment and intervention
Motor development: newborn to early walking
Supine, kicking, early reaching, rolling
Development
► Index
► Overview of postural development in supine
► Newborn infant
► Will at 5 weeks
► 1-2 month period
► 3-4 month period
► 5-7 month period - videos
►The day Will learned to roll across the room
Assessment
► Supine assessment 2-3 months (with checklist)
Training activities
► Max at 12 weeks (CA 6 weeks) Using bells to enhance kicking
► Roan at 17w (12 weeks CA) Atypical development
Head control and pull to sit
Development
► Birth to 12 weeks
► Pul-to-sit development
Intervention
► Neck flexionm mobilization to improve pull-to-sit
► Active stretching to improve neck and back stiffness
Prone - creeping - crawling
Development
► Development in prone: newborn to crawling - overview
►5-12 weeks - videos
5 weeks - videos with notes
7-14 weeks
3-4 months - videos
5-6 months - videos
7 months - videos and analysis
8-12 months - videos
Assessment
► Newborn to creeping
Intervention
► Activities for training kneeling and transitions from sitting to kneeling
Bibliography
Sitting
Development
► Overview
► Development of sitting: trajectory from birth to active independent sitting
Assessment
► Assessment of sitting: introduction
► Sitting with high trunk support
► Sitting with pelvic level support
► Sitting independently - with minimal external support
Intervention
► Training activities
Bibliography
► Sitting: bibliography
Supported standing and cruising
Development
► Development of standing with hand support
► Infants who won't put their feet down to stand
► Development of standing - from 8-12 months
Assessment
► Guide to assessment of standing with hand support (with PDF checklist)
Intervention and training guides
► Training activities -index
Social development and communication
► Development - video clips
Hand function
► Index
Perspectives
► Attention is the magic ingredient for learning new hand (fine motor) skills
► A research based guide to observing infant object exploration
► Foundation manual behaviors birth - 5 months
► How infants use their hands to grow their brains (On the SfA Infant and Toddler Developmental Gym website)
Development
► Infant hand function birth to 6 months
► Infant hand function 7 - 15 months
► From object exploration to goal directed actions: 10-18 months
Hand function tutorials
► Index to series of posts exploring the development of hand function from birth to 24 months
Video clips and analysis
► 0-7 months: figuring out how to use the hands to explore the environment
► 8-15 months: exploring object properties and affordances
► 15-36 months: goal directed actions
Toddler Gross Motor Tasks
Overview of toddler abilities
► Toddler gross motor abilities A brief description of all the locomotor, agility and climbing tasks a toddler needs to master
Standing up, sitting down, squatting and rising to stand
► Squatting and sitting down
► Standing up from floor sitting
► Standing up and sitting down on a step
Stepping up and down
► Stepping up: task analysis
► Training stepping up
Obstacles, gaps, uneven ground and stepping stones
► Stepping over obstacles: training ideas
► Walking on a bridge: training ideas
Jumping
► Learning to jump down: analysis and training ideeas
► Jumping off two feet: analysis and training ideas
Catching and throwing
Stopping a rolled ball
Throwing a soccer sized ball
► Ball catching: bibliography
Lifting and carrying
Carrying bottles
Carrying boxes - making box towers
Hand tasks
► Cutting with scissors
► Putting on socks