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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 201923" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I hope you feel better soon, Pooky (I read your post in Good Morning Thursday).</p><p></p><p>I tihnk I've mentioned it already - how are your son's hands? When he grips a pencil, what sort of grip does he use? Is he using a more mature pencil grip yet or does he keep going back to the full fisted grip? What are his fingertips doing as he grips with a pencil grip? Do they bend back? Because if they do, not only does this lead to hands getting tired and hurting fairly quickly, it also causes damage to his joints in general, sometimes even before teens. You CAN get ring splints, you would need to get this assessed by an Occupational Therapist first but they may be also able to help with ring splints.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 was using a computer keyboard from very young. So very early on, when it became clear that he had hypermobility problems, we switched him to typing instead of forcing him to keep handwriting. He does know how to hand-write, he will write single word answers, but when getting words down onto the page it is more important that he answer a question fully, than he mentally count how many letters in each word before he composes his (very brief) handwritten answer.</p><p></p><p>It's never too early to begin using a computer - we found one on a rubbish heap when difficult child 3 was a baby, so we figured if he wrecked it we still hadn't lost anything. So he had his own computer, with educational software at his level and that he was interested in, when he was about a year old. At first he was doing simple mazes and matching a letter or number on the computer screen, but soon he became much more sophisticated in terms of what he could do - he really blew us away. We videotaped him in the week after his second birthday, speed-typing in the alphabet (lower case on the screen) on the keyboard and reciting the alphabet as he went. The computer couldn't keep up. The thing is - he had previously programmed the computer himself, with the alphabet!</p><p></p><p>Look after yourself, keep yourself well. If you go down sick then everything else and everyone else loses who they rely on.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 201923, member: 1991"] I hope you feel better soon, Pooky (I read your post in Good Morning Thursday). I tihnk I've mentioned it already - how are your son's hands? When he grips a pencil, what sort of grip does he use? Is he using a more mature pencil grip yet or does he keep going back to the full fisted grip? What are his fingertips doing as he grips with a pencil grip? Do they bend back? Because if they do, not only does this lead to hands getting tired and hurting fairly quickly, it also causes damage to his joints in general, sometimes even before teens. You CAN get ring splints, you would need to get this assessed by an Occupational Therapist first but they may be also able to help with ring splints. difficult child 3 was using a computer keyboard from very young. So very early on, when it became clear that he had hypermobility problems, we switched him to typing instead of forcing him to keep handwriting. He does know how to hand-write, he will write single word answers, but when getting words down onto the page it is more important that he answer a question fully, than he mentally count how many letters in each word before he composes his (very brief) handwritten answer. It's never too early to begin using a computer - we found one on a rubbish heap when difficult child 3 was a baby, so we figured if he wrecked it we still hadn't lost anything. So he had his own computer, with educational software at his level and that he was interested in, when he was about a year old. At first he was doing simple mazes and matching a letter or number on the computer screen, but soon he became much more sophisticated in terms of what he could do - he really blew us away. We videotaped him in the week after his second birthday, speed-typing in the alphabet (lower case on the screen) on the keyboard and reciting the alphabet as he went. The computer couldn't keep up. The thing is - he had previously programmed the computer himself, with the alphabet! Look after yourself, keep yourself well. If you go down sick then everything else and everyone else loses who they rely on. Marg [/QUOTE]
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