Fine Motor Skills
Small, precise movements of the hands and fingers, writing, buttoning, using scissors, tying shoelaces.
Fine motor skills are the coordinated movements of small muscles in the hands, fingers and wrists, usually working together with the eyes. In children, fine motor development progresses from the palmar grasp of a baby to the tripod grasp needed to hold a pencil by age five or six. Weak fine motor skills show up as messy handwriting, avoidance of colouring and drawing, clumsy use of cutlery, and difficulty with fastenings. Paediatric OTs work on fine motor skills through graded activities, squeezing clay, threading beads, using tongs, cutting play dough with safety scissors, before progressing to pencil work.
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