![]() Grapes, raisins, popcorn, Maltesers and jellies work great. It’s great fun to use tweezers at snack time as children are motivated by treats and novelty. You can give them something to hold with the last two fingers if they are having difficulty with this. Encourage them to have three fingers on the tweezers and the last two fingers tucked in. Then rolling out the putty into a long snake and pinching it to make dragon scale, it’s important to make sure they use a pincer grip when doing this and not a key grip. Finding hidden coins in putty and then using a pincer grasp to post these into a money box. Use resistance putty ( Theraputty) to help them build general hand strength. ![]() It is important that we help children build their fine motor strength and dexterity to enable them to hold their pencils correctly we can do this with some simple games and day to day adjustments They may not find the grasp comfortable.They may not have been taught how to hold it correctly.Until recent times these were considered to be the only acceptable grasps that should be used when writing but more and more the literature is telling us that you shouldn’t worry about a pencil grasp unless it is affecting the speed or legibility of the child’s writing or they are experiencing pain.Ĭhildren can hold their pencils incorrectly for a number of reasons The most common pencil grasps are the Tripod and Quadropod grasp (See Below). There are many different ways that we hold our pencils, some of these work well for us and others impact significantly on the legibility and pace of our writing or the amount of writing we can do before it becomes painful. The reason that this become so engrained in the minds of Occupational Therapists is that when we see a child for handwriting difficulties one of the first things we need to look at is how they are holding their pencil and how this is affecting their writing. This becomes automatic and we frequently find ourselves assessing the pencil grasp of the lady behind the counter in the bank or the person taking our order at a restaurant. One of the first things Occupational Therapists look at when they see someone writing is their pencil grasp. Handwriting Without Tears Online Workshop October 2024 Handwriting Without Tears Online Workshop June 2024 Speech & Language Therapy: Where do we start? E-Learning Sensational Kids Gross Motor Skills Home Programme Sensational Kids Fine Motor Home Programme Handwriting Without Tears Online Workshop January 2024
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