Pediatric Exercise Handbook: A Developmental How-To for Parents and Clinicians

This is a nicely written resource for a new clinician, parent, or someone studying pediatric PT and/or early intervention. As a more experienced clinician, I have used this as an educational tool to provide parents and students with a "why" behind exercises and some nice, safe ways to simplify and advance interventions with clear pictures. It's a good springboard for discussion, creativity, session planning, and intentional play at home for parents, especially with everyone at home now! As someone who has done physical therapy mission work and lamented the lack of specific resources, I can definitely see how it would be a great, affordable resource on a mission trip to leave behind with caregivers. Nice job!

Interesting book with pictures, but not much in depth information for professionals

As a pediatric occupational therapist, I love this book! I love the format! It gives easy tools, simple activities as well and the “why” behind those recommendations. This books is a winner for therapists and parents. I recently made the switch from school based therapy to the early intervention setting. Having ideas of affordable and portable tools for therapy that are also accessible to families is amazing. This book is so easy to get out and share the images and ideas with parents right there in the moment of a therapy session. It’s light weight and the perfect size to keep in the work bag. LOVE IT!!!

I spend one day each week caring for my 15 month old grandson, who is currently receiving physical snd occupational therapy for low muscle tone. I am interested in doing my part to reinforce the skills he is working on in his therapy sessions. This book explains how to safely and effectively work on gross motor skills, balance, and core strength using creative exercises. Photos are included, which I find quite helpful.

The printing in the book I received was faint and difficult to see, especially the photos. The authors have worthy intentions but this book is better for caregivers who are currently working with a PT who is actively treating their child. The exercises would be helpful for a "typically-developing" child who needs more activity in their lives (couch potato or digitally-engrossed) but the activities would need direct training by a PT if the child had low muscle tone or other neuromuscular differences. The information about motor milestones is brief. I purchased this book for new parents of a healthy child but ended up holding it back and giving another book instead. Sorry, to be more critical but I recommend that the authors revise the book and consider asking some "test subject" parents to try doing the activities straight from the book without additional coaching so the authors can see what needs to be added/revised to the content.