Finnie's Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy at Home E-Book
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Finnie's Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy at Home E-Book

Finnie's Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy at Home E-Book

  1. 396 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Finnie's Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy at Home E-Book

Finnie's Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy at Home E-Book

About this book

The 4th edition of Finnie's Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy at Home has been updated to reflect the current practices of today. It aims to help parents assist their child with cerebral palsy (CP) towards achieving the most comfortable independence in all activities. It is hoped to show how, by using typical parenting skills, which involve guiding and exposing a child to develop through challenging experiences, the child with CP will also develop. The book is also intended to help professionals and other carers new to this field understand, support and encourage young children with CP and their families.

Over the years since the first edition of this book was written ideas on appropriate therapies have changed and developed. Similarly opinion on early intervention has changed and the method of delivery of service has in some places moved from centralisation to home-based or community provision. The emphasis of this new edition however remains on a holistic approach to the child's needs seeing the difficulties in relation to the overall development of the child as a unique person from childhood to adulthood.

  • Assessment procedures and prediction of future abilities
  • Management of problems (including medication if appropriate) such as epilepsy, constipation, eneurisis, nourishment, difficulty with sleeping, crying, temper tantrums, sensory deficits and deformity
  • Stimulation, fitness, problem solving, compensatory strategies and ease of management
  • New chapters include Neuroimaging, Epilepsy, Emotional health, Orthotics, Spasticity management, and Complementary and alternative medicine
  • Over 460 revised illustrations showing different pieces of equipment which may be helpful and ways of holding and moving a child with cerebral palsy
  • Chapters on Sleeping, Feeding, Lifting and Carrying, Toileting, Communication and Fine motor movement have been completely re-written by a professional specialising in the particular field

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Finnie’s handling the young child with cerebral palsy at home
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. List of contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Suggestions on how to use this book
  11. Chapter 1 Communication between parents and professionals
  12. Chapter 2 Preparing for and coping with hospital appointments, assessments and admissions
  13. Chapter 3 Medical aspects of cerebral palsy: causes, associated problems and management
  14. Chapter 4 The role of different brain-imaging techniques in the diagnosis of cerebral palsy
  15. Chapter 5 Epilepsy in cerebral palsy
  16. Chapter 6 Parents' problems
  17. Chapter 7 Learning and behaviour – the psychologist's role
  18. Chapter 8 Emotional health
  19. Chapter 9 Parents' contribution to early learning – developing a dialogue using touch, sight, hearing and communication
  20. Chapter 10 Understanding movement, both typical and in the child with cerebral palsy
  21. Chapter 11 Handling
  22. Chapter 12 Sleeping
  23. Chapter 13 Feeding
  24. Chapter 14 Lifting and carrying
  25. Chapter 15 Toilet training
  26. Chapter 16 Bathing
  27. Chapter 17 Dressing
  28. Chapter 18 Communication
  29. Chapter 19 Hand function and fine motor activities
  30. Chapter 20 Gross motor development in children with cerebral palsy: what do we know, and how may that knowledge help?
  31. Chapter 21 Chairs, pushchairs and car seats
  32. Chapter 22 Aids to mobility
  33. Chapter 23 Play
  34. Chapter 24 Leisure and fitness
  35. Chapter 25 Deformity: growth and the problems of getting taller
  36. Chapter 26 Orthoses and children with cerebral palsy
  37. Chapter 27 Spasticity
  38. Chapter 28 Complementary and alternative medicine in cerebral palsy
  39. Appendix 1 An overview of the first five stages of sensorimotor development in a child with typical movement
  40. Appendix 2 A typical child's gross motor development
  41. Appendix 3 Validated measures of motor development and function which can be used for children with cerebral palsy
  42. Appendix 4 Using the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) for intervention planning in children 0–5 years
  43. Appendix 5 Glossary of some of the terms used by therapists
  44. Index