Body and Mind: Motor Disorders in Children
Karen
Wills
a1
Ph.D., ABPP-CN
a1 Department of Psychological Services,
Children's Hospitals of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota
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Developmental
Motor
Disorders:
A
Neuropsychological
Perspective. Deborah Dewey and David E. Tupper (Eds.). (2004). New
York: Guilford, 501 pp., $70.00.
This book is thorough, thoughtful, and uniquely useful in the
questions it asks and attempts to answer. Included, for example, are
discussions of problems associated with the use of traditional
neurological “soft signs” to detect and predict long-term
motor impairment; patterns of newborn movement that predict childhood
cerebral palsy; strengths and weaknesses of tests and observational
checklists to assess motor proficiency; how best to diagnose and treat
phonological disorders versus verbal apraxia, or dysgraphia
versus motor dyspraxia; analysis and treatment of handwriting
problems; brain systems that subserve proprioception and how these systems
develop or derail; neuroimaging that assists in making the diagnosis of
periventricular leukomalacia; and, treatment approaches for children with
Developmental Coordination Disorder.
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