The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy, Gebunden

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Part I Nature of the defect.- Cerebral palsy detection: from John Little to the present.- Guide to the interpretation of cerebral palsy.- Part II Function analysis.- Functional diagnosis in infants and in very young children: early predictive signs.- Motor defects and deficits.- 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.- Part III Classification of spastic syndromes and clinical forms.- Critical aspects of traditional classifications.- Kinematic classification.- Tetraplegic clinical forms.- Dysperceptive clinical forms.- Diplegic clinical forms.- Hemiparetic clinical forms.- Part IV Rehabilitation of spastic forms.- The rehabilitation concept in cerebral palsy.- The posture treatment in tetraplegic forms.- The gait treatment in diplegic forms.- The manipulation treatment in hemiplegic forms.- The combined treatment (drugs, orthoses and aids, functional surgery, assistive technologies.- Family centred or child centred approach?.- Semeiotics manoeuvres.- Rational glossary.