Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: Strategies for Success

ISBN-13: 9780789013576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 176 str.

Cheryl Missiuna

Opis

Take a cognitive approach to treating children with DCD

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is frustrating for the children who must deal with it every day, for their parents, and for the professionals who work with these children. Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder offers new hope to children who are exeriencing this distinctive movement skill syndrome. It suggests ways they can overcome the challenges they encounter wherever motor skills are needed: in the classroom, on the playground, and at home doing self-care.

This groundbreaking volume challenges pediatric therapists to examine the assessment and intervention approaches that are currently being used with children who have DCD. Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder offers new model that draws on research in the fields of motor learning, educational psychology, cognitive strategies, and occupational therapy. In addition to theoretical background, this book provides a detailed protocol for CO-OP (Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance), an intervention that has been shown to facilitate problem-solving and enhance motor skill acquisition for children with DCD.

Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder offers a comprehensive discussion of the disorder, including:

• identification and assessment of children with DCD
• analysis of the Bruininks Osortesky Test of Motor Proficiency and the Movement Assessment Battery for Children
• the theoretical and empirical basis for current treatment approaches
• new motor learning theories and their implications for treatment
• the systematic development and evaluation of the CO-OP approach, from early case studies through videotape analysis and retrospective chart review
  
  Based on six years of systematic, cooperative research, Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder demonstrates the success of a unique cognitive approach to intervention with these frustrated children.

Spis treści

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Strategies for Success: Working with Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
• Developmental Coordination Disorder: What Is It?
• Identifying Developmental Coordination Disorder: Consistency Between Tests
• Treatment of Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: What Is the Evidence?
• Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP): Part I-Theoretical Foundations
• Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP): Part II-The Evidence
• Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP): Part III-The Protocol in Brief
• Cognitive Strategies and Motor Performance in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
• Clinical Concerns
• Passport to Learning: A Cognitive Intervention for Children with Organizational Difficulties
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Cheryl Missiuna