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Jennyfoo
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Small manipulation toys like Leggos, tinker toys, etc are also good. My 6 y/o is in OT and they do the putty- hide coins in it, and other things like that. They also have him play with play dough and moon sand.
My 10 y/o with HFA has fine motor skill issues too- poor pencil grip that hurts her hand when writing too long- she holds it just like me BTW and I have the same problem. The only real problem we've run into is with her orchestra teacher who insists that she hold her viola bow a certain way that is painful to her. She gets marked down for her bow grip. Unfortunately, her teacher is quite insistent and won't listen to us about the HFA and fine-motor skill problems. |
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liloleme
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Joined: Jun 09, 2008
Age: 41
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Location: California
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| DW_a_mom wrote: | | Have you requested an SST referral at school? Oh, wait, you home school / charter school? Since writing is an educational issue, the school has a vested interest in dealing with it. My son has OT through school, although the amount he gets is very limited. Still, if you have any way to access that resource, do it. It was actually the writing issue that eventually alerted us to my son's Asperger's. We started with an SST, OT review, but without having a special ed qualifier, she couldn't actually work with him, so my question was, "how do we get a special ed qualifier?" |
I did go ahead and request an IEP eval for my son through his Charter school. Im hoping that the Regional Center will be finished with thier eval before hand as they can help us with the IEP process. |
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ster
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Location: new england
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| inexpensive fine motor exercises- clip clothespins onto a card/clothesline, screwing/unscrewing nuts & bolts, painting, coloring, most arts & crafts, opening & closing ziploc bags, popping bubblewrap only using your index finger & thumb, playing marbles, ripping open junk mail, using scissors to cut up old magazines/newspapers |
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Omma
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I hear that putting some dried beans out on a table and having the child pick them up with tweezers and put them in a cup is helpful for fine motor. |
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dbzgirl
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I think an occupational therapist would probably help a lot. |
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EvilTeach
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I don't want to seem to be too far off the topic, but I recommend Badmitton.
It is a one on one game, that moves fast enough to generally keep an Aspies attention.
It did wonders for me when I was growing up. |
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