She provides more than 100 activities. Parents should accomplish most of the activities in the checklist of skills at the end of one chapter before moving to the next chapter and a new group of skills and activities. She then describes the variation in speed of acquiring motor skills by the child's individual personality. Winders helps families and professionals learn to observe and then focus on the next step. Winders discourages bad habits or abnormal movement patterns.
Photographs demonstrate the activities in home settings.
These are naturally occurring functional activities that every child will do. Children are pictured having fun exploring and learning to move with a parent who is watching and giving only the assistance that is needed. Motor development is described as moving from one group of functional skills to the next without age equivalents. She provides the average age with SD for 45 motor milestones, from rolling over to riding a tricycle. This book will be helpful to parents, pediatricians, teachers, and therapists working with children with Down syndrome.