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Fine Motor Skills

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What skills do ‘fine motor skills’ include?

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• Academics skills:

  • Pencil skills (scribbling, colouring, drawing, writing)

  • Scissors skills (cutting)

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• Play:

  • Construction skills using lego, duplo, puzzles, train tracks

  • Doll dressing and manipulation

  • IT use (e.g. mouse and stylus manipulation)

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• Self-care:

  • dressing – tying shoelaces, doling up sandals, zips, buttons, belts

    • eating – using cutlery, opening lunch boxes and food bags

      • hygiene – cleaning teeth, brushing hair, toileting.

What skills do ‘fine motor skills’ include?

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• Academics skills:

  • Pencil skills (scribbling, colouring, drawing, writing)

  • Scissors skills (cutting)

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• Play:

  • Construction skills using lego, duplo, puzzles, train tracks

  • Doll dressing and manipulation

  • IT use (e.g. mouse and stylus manipulation)

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• Self-care:

  • dressing – tying shoelaces, doling up sandals, zips, buttons, belts

    • eating – using cutlery, opening lunch boxes and food bags

      • hygiene – cleaning teeth, brushing hair, toileting.

How can you tell if my child has fine motor skill difficulties?

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• Avoidance and/or disinterest of fiddly finger skills.

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• Preferring  physical activity.

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• Interest in ‘passive’ activities. 

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• No interest in pencil or scissors skills.

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• Being ‘bossy’ in play and and asking others to  “draw a cat for me”.

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• Not persisting in the face of a challenge.

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• Reliance on parents to dress them or clean their teeth.

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Why should I seek therapy if I notice difficulties with fine motor skills in my child?