This volume contains 20 chapters relating to motor skill development, impairment, and therapy. Contributors working in human performance and rehabilitation, sport and exercise, physiology, and other fields around the world discuss human motor development in children with and without disabilities; developmental coordination disorder; motor skill development in able-bodied and impaired swimmers; assessment of skills; impairments due to stroke; motor learning; the performance of professional golfers and tennis players; oromotor impairment in cerebral palsy; arthrogryposis multiplex congenita; comparison of the skills of chimpanzees and humans; traditional mirror therapy for movement and postural control problems; muscle strength testing in children; children with autism; and other topics. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
