Hi Chris.

Fine motor problem stem from poor eye-hand coordination that often originates from poor ocular motor control.

Young children have often difficulties to move their eyes smoothly, the eye ball movement is jerky, therefore the children cannot coordinate the hand movements with the eye movements.

You are absolutely right, they need eye hand control exercises.

 

The book Introduction to Basic Pencil Skills guides the child to look at the starting point and the eye follows the hand towards to finishing point and up again and back again, left to right and back again, down to up etc. The activities in both Pencil Skills books provide the activities you need to achieve good eye-hand skills to start or improve pencil skills and writing.

Basic Number Concepts teach again to look and draw a line to a finishing spot and also to draw circles around numbers or pictures and at the same time teaches the poor writers the concept of 5.

The Writing Numbers activities teach writing numbers, therefore if the child can learn to write the 10 numbers well, it can easily proceed to writing letters.

We also have books on teaching to write and read short vowel words, always accompanied by pictures.

Best regards

Hana Jay

P. S.

Just a suggestion. Using puzzles to train visual motor skills have been proven very successful by many therapists and teachers. HJ