Re: More questions for Jacquie about fine motor skills...

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is 3.5 and has the same problem. I do connect the dots, we write her

name and every few times I'll take one line off and let her do it herself. I

hope if I do this for the next few months that she will be able to write her

name by herself at 4.

We also use templetes from the craft store for tracing. I also have her

string very small beads to improve her grip. We have been approved by

insurance for additional OT which will begin on Wednesday.

Hope this helps

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> > Jacquie, you mentioned has problems with fine motor skills,

> > what have you or his teacher been doing with to strenghten

these

> > skills ?

>

> We've had very little OT, but the best thing we got from it was a

container

> of red theraputty. If you haven't seen it, it's stiff stretchy

goo a lot

> like silly putty, but comes in different stiffnesses depending on

your kid's

> abilities

THANK YOU FOR ALL THESE GREAT TIPS ...WE WILL TRY THEM ALL ...

(mom to Will 4 ASD)

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>

> > Jacquie, you mentioned has problems with fine motor skills,

> > what have you or his teacher been doing with to strenghten

these

> > skills ?

>

> We've had very little OT, but the best thing we got from it was a

container

> of red theraputty. If you haven't seen it, it's stiff stretchy

goo a lot

> like silly putty, but comes in different stiffnesses depending on

your kid's

> abilities

THANK YOU FOR ALL THESE GREAT TIPS ...WE WILL TRY THEM ALL ...

(mom to Will 4 ASD)

[Guest guest]

>

>

> > Jacquie, you mentioned has problems with fine motor skills,

> > what have you or his teacher been doing with to strenghten

these

> > skills ?

>

> We've had very little OT, but the best thing we got from it was a

container

> of red theraputty. If you haven't seen it, it's stiff stretchy

goo a lot

> like silly putty, but comes in different stiffnesses depending on

your kid's

> abilities

THANK YOU FOR ALL THESE GREAT TIPS ...WE WILL TRY THEM ALL ...

(mom to Will 4 ASD)

[Guest guest]

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[Guest guest]

> Jacquie, you mentioned has problems with fine motor skills,

> what have you or his teacher been doing with to strenghten these

> skills ?

We've had very little OT, but the best thing we got from it was a container

of red theraputty. If you haven't seen it, it's stiff stretchy goo a lot

like silly putty, but comes in different stiffnesses depending on your kid's

abilities. A lot of the things we do with the theraputty could be done

with playdoh, too - like rolling a small piece into a ball with his fingers,

putting a ball between his fingers (like his index and ring fingers while

the hand is splayed on the table top) and making him squeeze the two fingers

together, pinching it, kneading it in one hand (this is VERY hard for

to do)

We have bags of marbles that he loves to dump and then pick up and look

at -- I let him do it because it's good for his pinscer grip, even though

it's a bit of a stim. He loves board games (Candyland was our first, and

IMHO, the best) and picking up and moving his playing piece is good for that

grip, too.

As for the writing -- the OT told us to use a pencil grip, but for the

longest time we couldn't find one he liked...until he bought one for himself

at a book fair at school. Pink with little flowers all over it. <sigh> He

loves it, though, and it does help. He doesn't like coloring or drawing, so

we do connect-the-dots and mazes, and he does a lot of writing at home. I

dictate my shopping list to him and he writes it out; I make him write his

own homework even though it's in his IEP that I can scribe for him. The

school is also allowed to scribe for him, but they don't, either. We have

write-on wipe-off alphabet books. Oh - and a mini-magna doodle dollar store

version. He LOVES that, and it's failure-proof because it's so easy to

erase and do over.

We had to work really hard to teach him to keep his wrist down while he

writes - he wants to hold the pencil straight out from the elbow and write

with his whole arm. We taught him to keep it down first by putting the

paper on a slanted binder sitting closed in front of him (so there was an

incline), and then my gently keeping fingers on his wrist while he wrote on

the flat table. Then it became just saying 'wrist down', and now he barely

needs reminding.

A lot of other good OT tips didn't work on him -- like rice tables, getting

his hands gooey in different mediums, etc, due to his extreme tactile

defensiveness.

All I can think of right now!

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> Jacquie, you mentioned has problems with fine motor skills,

> what have you or his teacher been doing with to strenghten these

> skills ?

We've had very little OT, but the best thing we got from it was a container

of red theraputty. If you haven't seen it, it's stiff stretchy goo a lot

like silly putty, but comes in different stiffnesses depending on your kid's

abilities. A lot of the things we do with the theraputty could be done

with playdoh, too - like rolling a small piece into a ball with his fingers,

putting a ball between his fingers (like his index and ring fingers while

the hand is splayed on the table top) and making him squeeze the two fingers

together, pinching it, kneading it in one hand (this is VERY hard for

to do)

We have bags of marbles that he loves to dump and then pick up and look

at -- I let him do it because it's good for his pinscer grip, even though

it's a bit of a stim. He loves board games (Candyland was our first, and

IMHO, the best) and picking up and moving his playing piece is good for that

grip, too.

As for the writing -- the OT told us to use a pencil grip, but for the

longest time we couldn't find one he liked...until he bought one for himself

at a book fair at school. Pink with little flowers all over it. <sigh> He

loves it, though, and it does help. He doesn't like coloring or drawing, so

we do connect-the-dots and mazes, and he does a lot of writing at home. I

dictate my shopping list to him and he writes it out; I make him write his

own homework even though it's in his IEP that I can scribe for him. The

school is also allowed to scribe for him, but they don't, either. We have

write-on wipe-off alphabet books. Oh - and a mini-magna doodle dollar store

version. He LOVES that, and it's failure-proof because it's so easy to

erase and do over.

We had to work really hard to teach him to keep his wrist down while he

writes - he wants to hold the pencil straight out from the elbow and write

with his whole arm. We taught him to keep it down first by putting the

paper on a slanted binder sitting closed in front of him (so there was an

incline), and then my gently keeping fingers on his wrist while he wrote on

the flat table. Then it became just saying 'wrist down', and now he barely

needs reminding.

A lot of other good OT tips didn't work on him -- like rice tables, getting

his hands gooey in different mediums, etc, due to his extreme tactile

defensiveness.

All I can think of right now!

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> Jacquie, you mentioned has problems with fine motor skills,

> what have you or his teacher been doing with to strenghten these

> skills ?

We've had very little OT, but the best thing we got from it was a container

of red theraputty. If you haven't seen it, it's stiff stretchy goo a lot

like silly putty, but comes in different stiffnesses depending on your kid's

abilities. A lot of the things we do with the theraputty could be done

with playdoh, too - like rolling a small piece into a ball with his fingers,

putting a ball between his fingers (like his index and ring fingers while

the hand is splayed on the table top) and making him squeeze the two fingers

together, pinching it, kneading it in one hand (this is VERY hard for

to do)

We have bags of marbles that he loves to dump and then pick up and look

at -- I let him do it because it's good for his pinscer grip, even though

it's a bit of a stim. He loves board games (Candyland was our first, and

IMHO, the best) and picking up and moving his playing piece is good for that

grip, too.

As for the writing -- the OT told us to use a pencil grip, but for the

longest time we couldn't find one he liked...until he bought one for himself

at a book fair at school. Pink with little flowers all over it. <sigh> He

loves it, though, and it does help. He doesn't like coloring or drawing, so

we do connect-the-dots and mazes, and he does a lot of writing at home. I

dictate my shopping list to him and he writes it out; I make him write his

own homework even though it's in his IEP that I can scribe for him. The

school is also allowed to scribe for him, but they don't, either. We have

write-on wipe-off alphabet books. Oh - and a mini-magna doodle dollar store

version. He LOVES that, and it's failure-proof because it's so easy to

erase and do over.

We had to work really hard to teach him to keep his wrist down while he

writes - he wants to hold the pencil straight out from the elbow and write

with his whole arm. We taught him to keep it down first by putting the

paper on a slanted binder sitting closed in front of him (so there was an

incline), and then my gently keeping fingers on his wrist while he wrote on

the flat table. Then it became just saying 'wrist down', and now he barely

needs reminding.

A lot of other good OT tips didn't work on him -- like rice tables, getting

his hands gooey in different mediums, etc, due to his extreme tactile

defensiveness.

All I can think of right now!

Jacquie