About the Director
Mrs. Rhoda P. Erhardt, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, received her B.S. in occupational therapy from the University of Illinois, and her M.S. in child development and family relations from North Dakota State University. She was trained in pediatric Neuro-Developmental Treatment of cerebral palsy (NDT) in London, England. The former director of the Easter Seal Mobile Therapy Unit in Fargo, North Dakota, she is currently in private practice in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and has provided evaluation and consultation services to a variety of health agencies, educational systems, and national corporations, as well as presenting workshops throughout the world. Publications include books, chapters, journal articles, assessments, and videotapes on topics such as normal and atypical development of prehension, vision, eye-hand coordination, and feeding in children with cerebral palsy and learning disabilities.
Product Description
An occupational therapist evaluates visual and hand skills to determine missing component of eye-hand skills in a preschool child with cerebral palsy. Treatment ideas and implications for function in home and school environments are discussed with the child and his parents during the assessment process. Finally, an example of intervention in a novel community context is illustrated by consultation with the family at a children's museum. This video is unique because it shows how a child with physical limitations can participate in a community setting with other children, simply by sensible adaptations of body and hand positioning to get optimal eye-hand coordination during the different museum activities such as: driving (simulated) a school bus, operating a real crane, and shopping for plastic fruit and vegetables in the grocery corner. Also available in DVD format.
