About this item
Teaching Motor Skills to Children with Cerebral Palsy and Similar Movement Disorders has helped countless parents and special needs teachers for more than a decade, won the Independent Publisher Award Bronze Medal, and is now revised and expanded in this new edition.This useful guide is filled with easy-to-follow exercises and therapeutic activities demonstrated in 318 photos. They show you how to implement frequently recommended home instructions. These and the revised background information help you to better partner with your child's physical therapist. Enjoy the insightful real-life anecdotes humanizing the text. Frequently asked questions, chapters on daily stretching, on staying physically fit and having fun, and on the newest trends in intensive short-term interventions round out this comprehensive new edition.
About the Author
Sieglinde Martin was born 1940 at the beginning of World War II in Langenfeld/Rheinland, Germany. She completed her primary and secondary education in post-war Germany. In 1964 she came to the U.S. for a post-graduate traineeship in physical therapy. After meeting and marrying her husband Gerhard E. Martin, a neurologist from Danzig (now Gdansk) , they made their home in Columbus, Ohio. Here they worked and raised their four children.Sieglinde received a Masters of Science degree from OSU and worked as a pediatric physical therapist in a variety of setting. Her book Teaching Motor Skills to Children with Cerebral Palsy and Similar Movement Disorders: A Guide for Parents and Professionals has been translated into several languages.After retirement Sieglinde spent time in her hometown in Germany taking care of her ailing mother. Reconnecting with older family members and friends, she asked them about their childhood experiences during Word War II. Impressed by the extent everyone had been touched by the war, she decided to write down the stories. Back in Ohio she interviewed friends who had lived through the war in different parts of Europe. The resulting seventeen true stories and a couple of antiwar chapters became the book Small Feet on the Run. Childhood during World War II Remembered and Arguments against War.
