[Book Description]

Contemporary management and intervention models for children with special health care needs and disabilities have evolved to match the rapid changes in pediatric service delivery.
Susan Effgen and her team of 23 scoolars and clincal experts are among the first to address these fundamental shifts in this innovative text. The theoretical foundation of 『Meeting the Physical Therapy Needs of Children』 is a systems approach - it is more comprehensive and dynamic, and emphasizes ability-based models over the deficit-based models covered in other books. A systems perspective helps to provide a better understanding of movement problems and health in general.


[Contents]

SECTION 1. Foundations of Service Delivery
CHAPTER 1: Serving the Needs of Children and Their Families
CHAPTER 2: Child Development and Appraisal
CHAPTER 3: Family-Centered intervention

SECTION 2. Systems
CHAPTER 4: Musculoskeletal System: Structure, Function, and Evaluation
CHAPTER 5: Musculoskeletal System: Musculoskeletal Considerations and Interventions for Specific Pediatric Pathologies
CHAPTER 6: Neuromuscular System: Structures, Functions, Diagnoses, and Evaluation
CHAPTER 7: Neuromuscular System: The Plan of Care
CHAPTER 8: The Cardiopulmonary System
CHAPTER 9: Integumentary System

SECTION 3. Service Delivery Settings
CHAPTER 11: Schools
CHAPTER 12: Sports Settings for the School-Aged Child
CHAPTER 13: The Pediatric Acute Care Hospital
CHAPTER 14: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
CHAPTER 15: Rehabilitation Settings

SECTION 4. Intervention Supports
CHAPTER 16: Assistive Technology: Postioning and Mobility
CHAPTER 17: Assistive Technology: Augmentative Communication and Other Technolgies

SECTION 5. Case Studies
CHAPTER 18: Case Study: Cerebral Palsy
CHAPTER 19: Case Study: Cystic Fibrosis
CHAPTER 20: Case Study: Down Syndrome
CHAPTER 21: Pediatric Leukemia
CHAPTER 22: Case Study: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Index