Developmental assessment : theory, practice and application to neurodisability / Patricia M. Sonksen, consultant paediatrician (Emeritus), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Child Health (ICH), London, UK.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonksen, Patricia M., author.

Series:

Mac Keith Press practical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nervous system--Diseases.

Nervous system.

Nervous system--Abnormalities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : Mac Keith Press, 2016.

Summary:

This handbook presents a new, practical and logical way of assessing development in preschool children that can be applied across the developmental spectrum. The reader is taught how to confirm whether development is typical and if it is not, is signposted to the likely nature and severity of impairments with a plan of action. The author uses numerous case vignettes from her 40 years experience to bring to life her approach with clear summary key points and helpful illustrations. * Clarifies what is being tested and the rationale behind traditional tests * Includes tables showing the ages at which 50% and 90% of children achieve a specific domain * Describes permissible assessment adaptations for children with impairments. This title will be of value to paediatricians, paediatric neurologists, developmental psychologists, health visitors, specialist nurses, speech-, occupational- and physiotherapists, ophthalmologists, orthoptists, audiologists and audiometricians at every level of experience in the care of children from 0 to 5 years.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. developmental approach to the examination of preschool children: thinking developmentally

2. Practicalities

3. Vision

4. Hearing (Illustrations by Lorna Welsh)

5. Social cognition

6. Non-symbolic cognition

7. Non-spoken symbolic development and imaginative play

8. Spoken language

9. Gross motor development (Illustrations by Blanche Stiff)

10. Upper limb development

11. Speech sound production: articulation and phonological processing

12. Gathering domain assessments into a comprehensive whole

13. Preliminary assessment of children with developmental delays and disorders and with severe single or multiple impairments

14. Developmental guidance (Illustrations by Blanche Stiff).

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 23, 2017).

ISBN:

9781909962583

1909962589

9781909962576

1909962570