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Piper, Martha C.

Motor assessment of the developing infant / Martha C. Piper, Johanna Darrah ; - Philadelphia : Saunders, c1994. - xii, 210 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

includes bibliographical references and index

Theories of motor development
Motor assessment of the developing infant
Alberta Infant Motor Scale: construction of a motor assessment tool for the developing infant
Administration guidelines
Prone subscale
Supine subscale
Sit subscale
Stand subscale
Clinical uses of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale
Psychometric properties of the aims / Lynn Redfern and Thomas O. Maguire
Norm-referencing of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale
Appendices : I. Percentile ranks: AIMS score ; II. Percentile ranks by age grouping ; III. Normative data ; IV. Percentile ranks


Findings supporting the benefit of early treatment of central nervous dysfunction have made the assessment of motor control problems of infants essential. This title presents theories of infant motor development and discusses the unique challenges involved in the assessment of the motor skills of developing infants as compared to that of adults.


ISBN: 0721643078 9780721643076

LCCN: 93024914

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Infants--Development.
Motor Skills--in infancy & childhood.
Child Development.
Motor ability

LC Class. No.: RJ134.P57 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 155.42/223

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WE 103 P665m 1993