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This book focuses on observing nonverbal behavior and movement for assessment and intervention with young children (from birth to age 7 years) with developmental delays. It is an innovative guide to using nonverbal communication with children both to support intervention programs and to help their parents and caregivers. The book is grounded in the author's experience in dance movement therapy as well as in developmental theory and presents clear explanations about movement and nonverbal communication for non-specialists. This is the first volume to combine information from the fields of psychology, early childhood development, neurobiology, kinesiology, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. It explains how to use a child's nonverbal expressions as a springboard for physical, emotional, communication, and cognitive development.

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This book is the reflection of the heart and mind of a therapist who possesses exceptional kinesthetic insight, interpersonal intuition, and a refined attunement to the psychic harmonies and rhythms of the inner life. --Gilbert M. Foley, Ed.D. Associate Professor of School-Clinical Child Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University (06/08/2006)

Will enhance enormously [readers'] understanding of the 'whole child' . . . Over and over we learn how movement is the point of entry for interaction and communication. --Susan Loman, ADTR, NCC

Has exceptional originality and power . . . clearly demonstrates how to read the nuances of movement and nonverbal expression in order to guide assessment and intervention. --G. Gordon Williamson, Ph.D., OTR Associate Clinical Professor of Occupational Therapy, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (06/08/2006) A huge achievement . . . will most certainly become a classic text for dance/movement therapists, educators, clinicians, and parents. --Robyn Flaum Cruz, Ph.D., ADTR Lesley University; Editor-in-Chief, The Arts in Psychotherapy; Vice President, American Dance Therapy Association (06/08/2006) A treasury of information on observing and assessing non-verbal communication unlike any that I have seen . . . help[s] professionals across disciplines move beyond the limits of our usual assessment tools. --Susan L. Recchia, Ph.D. Teachers College, Columbia University (06/08/2006) Remarkable . . . shows us . . . how to enter, understand and engage in a realm of communication with young children that spoken language can never reach. --Myron A. Hofer, M.D. Sackler Institute Professor of Developmental Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University (06/08/2006) [A] seamless blend of anecdotes, theoretical perspectives and specific strategies . . . I will recommend it to everyone I know! --Isaura Barrera, Ph.D. University of New Mexico (06/08/2006) Nothing less than a tour de force . . . layers of non-verbal, experiential, and movement 'knowing' literally dance to life through the inspired words Tortora has selected. --Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, LCSW, Ph.D. Institute for Infants, Children and Families, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (06/08/2006) Absolutely the most comprehensive and lucid explanation of what is so often a mysterious process: how to observe and intervene in the dance of learning, the dance of interaction, the dance of expression, the dance of healing, and the dance of being human. --Karen Bradley University of Maryland, College Park (06/08/2006) This book is the reflection of the heart and mind of a therapist who possesses exceptional kinesthetic insight, interpersonal intuition, and a refined attunement to the psychic harmonies and rhythms of the inner life. --Gilbert M. Foley, Ed.D. Associate Professor of School-Clinical Child Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University (06/08/2006) Will enhance enormously [readers'] understanding of the 'whole child' . . . Over and over we learn how movement is the point of entry for interaction and communication. --Susan Loman, ADTR, NCC

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Suzi Tortora has a dance movement psychotherapy private practice in New York City and the Hudson Valley. She was recently named International Medical Creative Therapy Spokesperson for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation. View her website at www.suzitortora.com

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