Infant motor development
By: Jan P. Piek.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Champaign, IL
Language: eng
Subjects: Motor ability in children.; Infants -- Physiology.; Motor Skills -- Infant.; Child Development.; Motor Skills Disorders -- Infant.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early movement capabilities; title: Theoretical approaches to motor development; title: Motor control and the brain: motor development and neural plasticity; title: Postural control: development of stability, balance, and orientation; title: Manual control: development of reaching and grasping; title: Locomotion: development of creeping and walking; title: Motor assessment tests; title: Neurobehavioral motor assessment and other tests; title: Diagnostic motor assessment and screening tests; title: Motor development in preterm infants; title: Cerebral palsy; title: Down syndrome.