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Developed for therapists working with children with cerebral palsy and other neuromotor disorders, this book outlines practical clinical interventions from expert clinicians and evaluates the evidence that supports these interventions. Chapters highlight the problem-solving and critical-thinking skills necessary to assess and treat the feeding and communication needs of children with this central motor impairment.

Cerebral palsied children --- Speech therapy for children. --- Speech disorders in children --- Children --- Rehabilitation. --- Treatment --- Diseases --- Children with cerebral palsy

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Cerebral Palsy in Infancy is a thought-provoking book which introduces a new way of thinking on the development and use of interventions. Relevant to current practice, it advocates early, targeted activity that is focused on increasing muscle activation, training basic actions and minimizing (or preventing) mal-adaptive changes to muscle morphology and function. The authors present recent scientific findings in brain science, movement sciences (developmental biomechanics, motor control mechanisms, motor learning, exercise science) and muscle biology. This knowledge provides the rationale for

Cerebral Palsy --- Infant --- Child --- Cerebral palsy --- Cerebral palsy. --- Brain Damage, Chronic --- Age Groups --- Persons --- Brain Diseases --- Named Groups --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Nervous System Diseases --- Diseases --- Treatment. --- Cerebral palsied children. --- Cerebral Palsy. --- Infant. --- Child. --- Brain-damaged children --- Children with disabilities --- Developmentally disabled children --- Movement disorders in children --- Paralysis, Spastic, in children --- Children with cerebral palsy.