Motor Assessment of the Developing Infant

by Martha Piper, Johanna Darrah

Presents theories of infant motor development and discusses the unique challenges involved in the assessment of the motor skills of developing infants as compared to that of adults. Provides step-by-step instruction for using the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS)--a new scale that measures infant motor development. Features a review of the major theories of motor development, line drawings and photographs of each movement skill, and a percentile graph enabling the user to plot and infant's score and derive a visual estimate of his/her percentile ranking.

210 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 1994

Reviews

[Pige]

A book for work. Good, some interesting information in the beginning. In any other genre of book I would have been disappointed in the illustrations. But here the little line drawings of babies moving around was all that was needed.

[Alberto]

un libro de vital interes para la ciencia y nosotros los estudiantes