Motor Assessment of the Developing Infant
Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS)
- 2nd Edition - August 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Martha Piper, Johanna Darrah
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 6 0 5 7 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 8 3 9 - 6
Motor Assessment of the Developing Infant, 2nd Edition presents theories of infant motor development and discusses the unique challenges involved in assessing the motor skills of… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMotor Assessment of the Developing Infant, 2nd Edition presents theories of infant motor development and discusses the unique challenges involved in assessing the motor skills of developing infants as compared to that of adults. It provides step-by-step instructions for using the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) — a scale that measures infant gross motor skills. It also features a review of two current theories of motor development, line drawings and photographs of 58 gross motor skills, and a percentile graph to plot an infant’s score and derive an estimate of his or her percentile ranking. Clinicians, researchers, and parents/caregivers have all reported satisfaction with both the ease of an AIMS assessment and the strong psychometric properties of the scale. Thus, the descriptors of the 58 motor items and the administration and scoring guidelines have stood the test of time and remain unchanged in this second edition.
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[email protected].- Comprehensive coverage of how to use the Alberta Infant Motor Scale, a standardized measurement scale used to assess the gross motor abilities of infants.
- Line drawings and photographs of 58 gross motor skills.
- Five copies of the AIMS scoresheet are included with the print edition.
- The Alberta Infant Motor Scale is trusted by clinicians and researchers across the globe.
Clinicians
· AIMS is used by clinicians as an outcome measure for high risk infants, but has also been adopted for special populations; it is also being used to document the motor outcome of infants with medical diagnoses, such as meningitis
Used primarily by Physical Therapists (239,800) and Occupational Therapists (130,400) [BLS, 2018]1. Theories of Motor Development
2. Motor Assessment of the Developing Infant
3. Alberta Infant Motor Scale: Construction of a Motor Assessment Tool for the Developing Infant
4. Administration Guidelines
5. Prone Subscale
6. Supine Subscale
7. Sit Subscale
8. Stand Subscale
9. Clinical Uses of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale
10. Psychometric Properties of the AIMS
11. Norm-Referencing of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale
Appendix I: Percentile Ranks – AIMS Score
Appendix II: Percentile Ranks by Age Grouping
Appendix III: Normative Data
Appendix IV: Percentile Ranks
Index
2. Motor Assessment of the Developing Infant
3. Alberta Infant Motor Scale: Construction of a Motor Assessment Tool for the Developing Infant
4. Administration Guidelines
5. Prone Subscale
6. Supine Subscale
7. Sit Subscale
8. Stand Subscale
9. Clinical Uses of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale
10. Psychometric Properties of the AIMS
11. Norm-Referencing of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale
Appendix I: Percentile Ranks – AIMS Score
Appendix II: Percentile Ranks by Age Grouping
Appendix III: Normative Data
Appendix IV: Percentile Ranks
Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: August 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323760577
- eBook ISBN: 9780323798396
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Martha Piper
Affiliations and expertise
President, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada