My Focus Child’s Motor and Self Help Skills

            My focus child has a developmental delay in motor skills.  The delay is in his fine motor skills and he needs to keep working on cutting with scissors, using pencils with a three pinch finger position and he also has mild difficulty using small materials to manipulate. He is able to pick up pencils, crayons, and marker with his hands but could not handle them appropriately in writing and drawing. 

            I learned that “Most fine motor skills, as far as reparation for manual control is concerned, involve hands and fingers” (Cook, Klein, Tessier p. 223).  I knew from the beginning that he has demonstrated fine motor skill problems.  So I discussed with my focus child’s teacher and came up a plan to improve his fine motor skills by providing several papers with lines to cut and the next time I will bring a similar activity except I added simple shapes such as square, triangle, and rectangle to give him a little challenge and develop mathematical concepts.  I am looking for how much improvement he will get by the end of this semester because he has improved since Mid January. 

 Reference:

Cook, R.E., Klein, M.D. & Tessier, A. (2008). Adapting early childhood curricula for children with Special Needs (7^th Ed).  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Pearson Prentice Hall.