The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy A Guide to the Assessment of Adaptive Functions

This book is the result of studies on cerebral palsy (CP) in children that the authors and their collaborators (medical doctors and therapists) have carried out in recent years. It addresses the main topics associated with the evaluation of adaptive functions in the spastic forms of CP (definition a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ferrari, Adriano, Cioni, Giovanni (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milano Springer Milan 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Nature of the Defect
  • Cerebral Palsy Detection: from John Little to the Present
  • Guide to the Interpretation of Cerebral Palsy
  • Function Analysis
  • Functional Diagnosis in Infants and in Very Young Children: Early Predictive Signs
  • Motor Defects
  • Perceptive Defects
  • Praxic Organization Disorders
  • Visual and Oculomotor Disorders
  • Neuropsychological Evaluation
  • Emotional, Behavioral and Social Disorders in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy
  • Observing Interactions
  • Classification of Spastic Syndromes and Clinical Forms
  • Critical Aspects of Classifications
  • Kinematic Classification
  • Tetraplegic Forms
  • Dysperceptive Forms
  • Forms of Diplegia
  • Forms of Hemiplegia