Beyond Left and Right Handedness

A Practice-based Approach to Assessing and Analysing Handedness Dimensions and Types

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvElke Kraus

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It is important for professionals working with children, including those who are still undecided about their writing hand, to assess, analyse and understand the complexity of handedness comprehensively to prevent problems related to switched or atypical handedness.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-08-18
Mått178 x 254 x 16 mm
Vikt661 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor287
Upplaga2023
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031243912
OriginaltitelZwischen Links- und Rechtshändigkeit

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Prof. Dr. Elke Kraus holds a doctorate in occupational therapy (Ph.D) from the Department of Occupational Therapy at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, where she developed the basis of the Handedness Profile. Throughout her career she combined working in clinical practice with research and teaching, having studied, taught and practised in South Africa, Australia and Germanay. She is specialised in children’s handedness and fine motor skills. Since 2005 she is Professor and Head of Department for Occupational Therapy at the Alice-Salomon University in Berlin, and an experienced researcher, author of many publications as well as Editorial Board Member of the German peer-reviewed journal “ergoscience”. In addition to the Handedness Profile, she developed several other instruments, including the Pediatric Occupational Therapy Assessment and Process Instrument (PEAP), an participation-centered instrument for assessing the occupational status in children aged 3-8 years; as well as screening and intervention tools targeting fine motor and handwriting skills.

1 Introduction.- 2 Basics of handedness.- 3 Determining handedness.- 4 Possible causes of changing hand use.- 5 The development of the handedness profile.- 6 The current handedness profile.- 7 Proposal of a differentiation system "handedness type with variants" for the analysis of changing hand use.- 8 Ideas for intervention with handicapped children.- 9 Case studies from the field.- 10 A panorama: implication for practice, theory, and research.

“Kraus provides a comprehensive and scholarly discussion, offering in-depth insights into all facets of handedness … . the book can be useful for readers who are just beginning their exploration of handedness. In the field of handedness, theory and research were standing a bridge too far from practice; and for too long. Elke Kraus’s book is finally building this conceptual bridge. May the reader walk over it, as I have, and enjoy the beautiful new landscape below it.” (Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Laterality, February 14, 2024)