Developmental Motor Disorders: A Neuropsychological Perspective. Deborah Dewey and David E. Tupper (Eds.). (2004). New York: Guilford, 501 pp., $70.00.

This book is thorough, thoughtful, and uniquely useful in the questions it asks and attempts to answer. Included, for example, are discussions of problems associated with the use of traditional neurological “soft signs” to detect and predict long-term motor impairment; patterns of newborn movement that predict childhood cerebral palsy; strengths and weaknesses of tests and observational checklists to assess motor proficiency; how best to diagnose and treat phonological disorders versus verbal apraxia, or dysgraphia versus motor dyspraxia; analysis and treatment of handwriting problems; brain systems that subserve proprioception and how these systems develop or derail; neuroimaging that assists in making the diagnosis of periventricular leukomalacia; and, treatment approaches for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder.