About this item
(2007 Independent Publisher Award Bronze Medalist, Health/Medicine/Nutrition category) All children with cerebral palsy and other conditions that result in gross motor delays need help and reinforcement to learn basic motor skills, usually with assistance from a physical therapist. Because the degree of developmental delay varies greatly from child to child, a thorough motor evaluation is an important step before establishing a specific therapy plan. This new guide, written by an experienced physical therapist, provides parents with a complete understanding of how the physical characteristics of cerebral palsy and similar conditions--muscle tightness and weakness, increased or decreased flexibility, abnormal reflexes, impaired sensory perception--affect a child's ability to sit, crawl, stand, and walk.
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.
