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Spastic Hemiplegia–Unilateral Cerebral Palsy

Spastic Hemiplegia–Unilateral Cerebral Palsy

Spastic Hemiplegia breaks down the medical complexity of the condition into a clear, lifelong roadmap, combining world-class clinical expertise with lived experiences to empower all those involved from diagnosis to adulthood.

Whether you are an individual navigating your own care, a parent or family member supporting a loved one, or a healthcare professional looking for a broader perspective, this practical guide offers the expert-backed clarity needed to manage spina bifida with confidence.

 

“As relevant to doctors and health professionals as it is to people with cerebral palsy and their families.”

—NADIA BADAWI, AM

“This book gets my highest recommendation.”

—NATHALIE MAITRE, MD, PhD, PARENT

“Wow! This book is the most amazing and comprehensive source of information available for persons with unilateral CP and their families I have ever seen, and it should be required reading for any professionals who care for them.”

—DIANE DAMIANO, PhD, FAPTA

“A must-read for all.”

—BENJAMIN SHORE, MD, MPH, FRCSC

 

Key features:

  • Clinical excellence: Delivers detailed medical insights and best-practice evidence-based treatment options.
  • Holistic perspective: Explores how spina bifida impacts development, participation, and overall quality of life.
  • Lifelong focus: Provides tailored guidance that evolves alongside the needs of children, adolescents, and adults.
  • Empowered outcomes: Equips families with the tools and confidence to partner effectively with healthcare teams for optimal long-term health.

The Gillette Children’s Healthcare Series distills medical complexity into clear, actionable roadmaps for childhood-acquired physical and neurological conditions. By bridging the gap between clinical research and daily reality, this definitive collection provides a vital guide for those living with a lifelong condition.

Whether you are an individual navigating your own health journey, a parent or family member supporting a loved one, or a healthcare professional seeking a broader multidisciplinary perspective, this series provides the expert-backed clarity needed to manage the condition with confidence.

Co-published by Mac Keith Press and Gillette Children’s Healthcare Press, the series is built on a foundation of collaborative expertise. Every book combines evidence-based, best-practice treatments led by medical specialists with the invaluable lived experiences of individuals and families.

You can now purchase the complete Gillette Children’s Healthcare Series bundle at a 30% discount via this link.

 

Other titles in the series include:

  • Craniosynostosis
  • Idiopathic Scoliosis
  • Spastic Quadriplegia–Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
  • Spastic Diplegia–Bilateral Cerebral Palsy, second edition
  • Epilepsy
  • Spina Bifida
  • Osteogenesis Imperfecta
  • Scoliosis: Congenital, Neuromuscular, Syndromic, and Other Causes

Idiopathic Scoliosis

Idiopathic Scoliosis

Idiopathic Scoliosis breaks down the medical complexity of the condition into a clear, lifelong roadmap, combining world-class clinical expertise with lived experiences to empower all those involved from diagnosis to adulthood.

Whether you are an individual navigating your own care, a parent or family member supporting a loved one, or a healthcare professional looking for a broader perspective, this practical guide offers the expert-backed clarity needed to manage spina bifida with confidence.

It is a companion book to Scoliosis: Congenital, Neuromuscular, Syndromic and other Nonidiopathic Types, which addresses scoliosis where the cause is known.

“An infinitely readable and well-researched book not only for patients and their families but also for health care providers at all levels.”

—BENJAMIN D. ROYE, MD-MPH

“Our daughter was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic scoliosis right before she started kindergarten, and we were so worried. We wish we had this book during that time as it answers so many questions.”

—AMBER MARLATT, PARENT

“As up-to-date and inclusive as a textbook written for medical professionals while being as easily readable as a novel for children with scoliosis and their families. An indispensable source of comfort for all scoliosis patients.”

—MUHARREM YAZICI, MD

 

Key features:

  • Clinical excellence: Delivers detailed medical insights and best-practice evidence-based treatment options.
  • Holistic perspective: Explores how spina bifida impacts development, participation, and overall quality of life.
  • Lifelong focus: Provides tailored guidance that evolves alongside the needs of children, adolescents, and adults.
  • Empowered outcomes: Equips families with the tools and confidence to partner effectively with healthcare teams for optimal long-term health.

The Gillette Children’s Healthcare Series distills medical complexity into clear, actionable roadmaps for childhood-acquired physical and neurological conditions. By bridging the gap between clinical research and daily reality, this definitive collection provides a vital guide for those living with a lifelong condition.

Whether you are an individual navigating your own health journey, a parent or family member supporting a loved one, or a healthcare professional seeking a broader multidisciplinary perspective, this series provides the expert-backed clarity needed to manage the condition with confidence.

Co-published by Mac Keith Press and Gillette Children’s Healthcare Press, the series is built on a foundation of collaborative expertise. Every book combines evidence-based, best-practice treatments led by medical specialists with the invaluable lived experiences of individuals and families.

You can now purchase the complete Gillette Children’s Healthcare Series bundle at a 30% discount via this link.

 

Other titles in the series include:

  • Craniosynostosis
  • Spastic Hemiplegia–Unilateral Cerebral Palsy
  • Spastic Quadriplegia–Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
  • Spastic Diplegia–Bilateral Cerebral Palsy, second edition
  • Epilepsy
  • Spina Bifida
  • Osteogenesis Imperfecta
  • Scoliosis: Congenital, Neuromuscular, Syndromic, and Other Causes

Craniosynostosis

Craniosynostosis cover

Craniosynostosis breaks down the medical complexity of the condition into a clear, lifelong roadmap, combining world-class clinical expertise with lived experiences to empower all those involved from diagnosis to adulthood.

Whether you are an individual navigating your own care, a parent or family member supporting a loved one, or a healthcare professional looking for a broader perspective, this practical guide offers the expert-backed clarity needed to manage spina bifida with confidence.

 

“One of the most comprehensive and educational books on craniosynostosis.”

—WALEED GIBREEL, MD

“The book I wish I had when my son was diagnosed with sagittal craniosynostosis.”

—ELAINE L. KINSELLA, PARENT

“A remarkably comprehensive review of all things related to craniosynostosis.”

—CHRISTOPHER R. FORREST, MD

 

Key features:

  • Clinical excellence: Delivers detailed medical insights and best-practice evidence-based treatment options.
  • Holistic perspective: Explores how spina bifida impacts development, participation, and overall quality of life.
  • Lifelong focus: Provides tailored guidance that evolves alongside the needs of children, adolescents, and adults.
  • Empowered outcomes: Equips families with the tools and confidence to partner effectively with healthcare teams for optimal long-term health.

The Gillette Children’s Healthcare Series distills medical complexity into clear, actionable roadmaps for childhood-acquired physical and neurological conditions. By bridging the gap between clinical research and daily reality, this definitive collection provides a vital guide for those living with a lifelong condition.

Whether you are an individual navigating your own health journey, a parent or family member supporting a loved one, or a healthcare professional seeking a broader multidisciplinary perspective, this series provides the expert-backed clarity needed to manage the condition with confidence.

Co-published by Mac Keith Press and Gillette Children’s Healthcare Press, the series is built on a foundation of collaborative expertise. Every book combines evidence-based, best-practice treatments led by medical specialists with the invaluable lived experiences of individuals and families.

You can now purchase the complete Gillette Children’s Healthcare Series bundle at a 30% discount via this link.

Other titles in the series include:

  • Idiopathic Scoliosis
  • Spastic Hemiplegia–Unilateral Cerebral Palsy
  • Spastic Quadriplegia–Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
  • Spastic Diplegia–Bilateral Cerebral Palsy, second edition
  • Epilepsy
  • Spina Bifida
  • Osteogenesis Imperfecta
  • Scoliosis: Congenital, Neuromuscular, Syndromic, and Other Causes

Watch the authors discuss Craniosynostosis with the Children’s Craniofacial Association

Recent Advances in the Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Impact of HIV

Recent Advances in the Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Impact of HIV

Recent Advances in the Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Impact of HIV brings together world-leading experts in the field of HIV, to provide new and critical insights into HIV treatment and management for children and adolescents. Those infected with HIV are living longer thanks to antiretroviral drugs, and HIV-related neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders therefore require urgent attention, particularly complications which arise from long-term medication use. The authors summarise key findings in these important areas, as well as gaps in research and implications for paediatric HIV work. Readers of Recent Advances in the Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Impact of HIV will discover ways of optimising the neurological health of children and adolescents living with HIV through better care provision and earlier intervention.

⦁ Outlines the important clinical neurological issues facing children and young adults with HIV infection
⦁ Presents up-to-date diagnostic and treatment approaches
⦁ Provides practical clinical strategies to improve the care of children and adolescents with HIV

Recent Advances in the Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Impact of HIV is an essential resource for all clinicians involved in the care of children and adolescents with HIV and their families, including doctors, paediatricians, psychologists, and other health practitioners and researchers.

Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness: Supporting Individuals with Childhood-Onset Disabilities

Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness

Exercise and physical activity in all forms are an important part of life, and can have lasting mental and physical health benefits. Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness provides critical insights in the field through clear and evidence-based information on how to evaluate, train, and foster physical activity and fitness in individuals with childhood-onset disabilities safely across the lifespan. The authors respond to specific needs to enable many people to lead more physically active lives. Themes include physical fitness and activity assessment and training, safe engagement, measurement of activity levels and progress, responses to pain, and information relevant to specific diagnostic groups. Diverse, complex subjects are presented in an accessible and engaging way.

  • Easy-to-understand, evidence-based information on fitness training and testing.
  • Information on feasible types of physical activity for different diagnostic groups.
  • Tables used to summarize test descriptions and training principles.
  • Multidisciplinary and international team of co-authors: clinicians and academic experts with specialisms ranging from rehabilitation to oncology.

Readership

Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness is an essential resource for individuals with childhood-onset physical and developmental disabilities, and their families; rehabilitation clinicians; educators; coaches; specialists in sports medicine, sports science, or physical rehabilitation; health and exercise science students.

Author Video

Paediatric Neuropsychology Within the Multidisciplinary Context

Booth, Murphy, and Zebracki present exciting new critical insight on neuropsychological theory and its influence on clinical practice in this accessible and forward-looking publication. With new research and theory on brain-behaviour relationships supported by instructive case studies, this Practical Guide demonstrates how neuroscience and other important factors are driving clinical formulation in paediatric neuropsychology. Rather than being constricted by conventional pathology, this book invites the reader to consider typical and atypical development as nuanced processes. The content serves to inform readers on assessment and intervention for children with commonly occurring and rare conditions, which require close and complex multidisciplinary collaboration.

• Fully encompasses sensory processes, cognitive processes, and other critical factors (internal and environmental) that influence conceptualisation and intervention.
• Multidisciplinary and international team of co-authors (clinicians, and academic experts) ensuring the synthesis of research and clinical perspectives.
• Process-orientated approach with direct and relevant suggestions for assessment, diagnosis and development of excellent, evidence-based intervention strategies.
• Chapter-by-chapter case vignettes to bring the theory into practice.
• An index of critical measures for quick reference.

Readership 

An essential resource for early-career paediatric neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, educational psychologists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, paediatric neurologists, neurodisability and community paediatricians, and specialist nurses.

Author podcast

SINDA: Standardized Infant NeuroDevelopmental Assessment

Is there a way to accurately predict neurodevelopmental disability within the first year of life? Standardized Infant NeuroDevelopmental Assessment (SINDA) has been developed as a screening instrument for infants aged 6 weeks to 12 months corrected age, to assist early detection of infants at high risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. It is the first developmental instrument to allow a comprehensive (360-degree) approach including “all” dimensions of development. With assessment in less than 10 minutes, SINDA can be used quickly in virtually any environment and requires only simple equipment.

  • A truly concise neurodevelopmental assessment tool for infants in the first year.
  • Holistic three scale approach: neurological, developmental, and socio-emotional scales.
  • Assessment in less than 10 minutes for the neurological scale, which is also reliable and predicts neurodisability well.
  • Highly illustrated with figures and over 160 video-clips (available from www.mackeith.co.uk) allowing the application of SINDA without a training course.

Readership 

An essential resource for health professionals working in the field of early detection and early intervention, i.e., paediatricians, developmental paediatricians, neonatologists, child neurologists, paediatric physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech language therapists, psychologists and educationalists.

Author podcast

In this podcast, Mijna Hadders-Algra discusses their upcoming title with us, SINDA: Standardized Infant NeuroDevelopmental Assessment with Karen Horridge.

The Musculoskeletal System in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Philosophical Approach to Management

Do we need a paradigm shift in our approach to the assessment and management of the musculoskeletal system in children with cerebral palsy? This book encourages clinicians to reflect on how their thoughts and approaches are shaped by the clinical society. Using new perspectives and expertise, this book will inspire clinicians to rethink conventions about the child with cerebral palsy, consider how they communicate these new concepts to their fellow clinicians, and act to bring about positive changes in the management of children with cerebral palsy.

  • Provides a critical review of the current understanding and management of musculoskeletal deformity in children with cerebral palsy.
  • Transfers current understanding of muscle and bone physiology and function, from the realms of research into mainstream clinical thinking.
  • Advocates for an alternative clinical model of assessment and intervention, focusing on the experience of the child with cerebral palsy and their experience of the world.
  • Proposes the concept of the musculoskeletal system in the child with cerebral palsy as a linked system of interactive processes and subsystems, extending from individual molecules to the child and their environment.

Readership 

A critical resource for clinicians and researchers involved in the care of children with cerebral palsy including Neurologists, Physical Therapists, Orthopaedic surgeons and Neurosurgeons, as well as researchers and clinicians in the philosophy of medicine.

 

Author podcast

In this podcast, authors Martin Gough and Adam Shortland discuss their publication: The Musculoskeletal System in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Philosophical Approach to Management.

Children with Vision Impairment: Assessment, Development, and Management

Vision impairment is a long-term condition caused by disorders of the eye, optic nerve, and brain. Using evidence-based knowledge, theory, and research, this book provides practical guidance for practitioners who are involved in the care and management of children with long-term vision impairment and disability. The book is divided into four sections following the ICF-CY model: (1) eye disorders, vision and brain, (2) child development and learning from birth to older childhood, (3) habilitation, orientation, reading and assistive technologies and (4) social relationships and participation in everyday contexts. 

  • International team of experts present up to date vision and neuroscience research and assessment and management approaches.
  • Multidisciplinary approaches for improving function, learning and activity in children with vision impairment.
  • New approach to childhood vision impairment with a focus on assessment, function and participation.
  • Covering all vision disorders and levels of vision impairment, including eye disorders, cerebral vision impairment and complex disability.

Readership

A useful resource for developmental/and neurodisability paediatricians and clinicians including clinical, neuro- and educational psychologists, occupational therapists,  speech and language therapists, physiotherapists; paediatric ophthalmologists and eye clinic staff;  mobility/ habilitation specialists, educationalists of vision impairment and others; community family support and social care workers.

Author Podcast

In this podcast, co-editors Naomi Dale, Jenefer Sargent, and Alison Salt discuss their publication Children with Vision Impairment: Assessment, Development, and Management

Author Q&A 

In this Q&A published by Teachwire in SENCO magazine 2021, Co-editor Professor Naomi Dale talks about her book Children with Vision Impairment. 

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Early Detection and Early Intervention in Developmental Motor Disorders

Early-detection-and-early-intervention-in-developmental disorders

Critically ill infants in the newborn period are at high risk of developmental motor disorders. Mijna Hadders-Algra comprehensively addresses how best to detect which infants will be later diagnosed and how best to enact early intervention to improve their quality of life. Parts I & II provide an overview of the clinical picture and neurodevelopmental mechanisms. In Parts III & IV basic principles and features governing typical and atypical motor development are explained. Part V summarises assessment methods and Part VI discusses the methods and effectiveness of early intervention.

  • Provides practical clinical strategies to improve care of children with or at risk of developmental motor disorders (such as cerebral palsy or developmental co-ordination disorder).
  • Pays special attention to the family and environmental adaptations.
  • Video-clips illustrate typical and atypical movements.
  • Consistent use of the ICF as a framework.

From the Foreword

“The combination of theoretical and practical information with some really philosophical insights provide value for clinicians and for those wanting to teach and expand the evidence base in this area for the future.”

Anna Basu

Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist,

Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Readership

This evidence-based practical guidance will be useful for health professionals working in the field of early detection and early intervention including paediatricians, developmental paediatricians, neonatologists, child neurologists, paediatric physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists and educationalists.

Author Podcast

In this podcast, Anna Basu interviews Mijna Hadders-Algra about their newest publication, Early Detection and Early Intervention in Developmental Motor Disorders (March 2021).