Handprints
Handprints
Home Programs for Hand Skills
At last, a home program to develop young children’s hand skills. This unique program is full of educational parent articles and easy-to-do activities. Designed especially for children from birth to five, Handprints offers more than just activities. Reproducible parent articles help parents and caregivers understand the “how” and “why” of hand development. This knowledge, coupled with the activities, allows parents to be part of the solution-not just passive observers-in their child’s hand development.
• The manual contains:
• An overview for the occupational therapist
• Hand Skills and Related Topics: 20 parent articles that explain hand skills in simple terms, how they develop, and how each is important.
• Hand Skills in Daily Activities: 10 parent articles that address the relationship of hand skills to the activities of a child’s daily living. Each article explains an activity, the hand skills involved, and what each developmental stage of the activity looks like.
• Activities: 30 fun ways for parents to play with their children while working on the child’s hand skills. Materials can be found at home or are inexpensive and easily attainable. There are suggestions for making the activities easier or harder. A “why” section helps parents recognize the important skills addressed in the activity.
• Adaptations: Eleven parent articles that suggest generalized adaptations that can be used with a variety of activities.
• Skill/activity charts that show at a glance which skills are compatible with which activities.
• An activity checklist for the therapist to monitor the articles and activities that have been sent home with each child.
• A glossary of terms.
• An extensive list of toys and the hand skills they address.
Therapists and early childhood educators will welcome these useful, reproducible materials. An exciting resource!