Fine Motor | Learners Trust Support | Primary School Support

Fine Motor Skills

Some tips to help to support learning for a child with Fine Motor difficulties:

Daily finger exercises and fine motor programmes including lots of threading, picking up small objects, cutting, buttons
Practicing pincer grip movements - use tweezers
Do lots of messy play
Use play dough, stress balls, theraputty to help to strengthen fingers and hands
Use special grips for pens and pencils
Use different methods to write - sand, rice, foam, mud
Practice memory games and give the child extra time to process instructions and what has been said
Consider audio books, recording sentences and playing them back to aid writing

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