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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 467776" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Malika - </p><p></p><p>Do you have access to an occupational therapist? No idea what the equiv is in France... here there are two related fields - physiotherapy, and occupational therapy. PT deals with muscles and joints - Occupational Therapist (OT) deals more with the brain-muscle connection (an Occupational Therapist (OT) can explain it better, but that's how I've categorized it in my brain)</p><p></p><p>If so, it does NOT hurt to get an Occupational Therapist (OT) to evaluate J's motor skills. While you're at it, also evaluate for sensory issues.</p><p></p><p>The chances are high that these will come back clear - there may be no issue at all. The advantage of getting the evaluation is two-fold:</p><p>1) if there is nothing, it will set your own mind at ease</p><p>2) if there is something, NOW is a very good time to start interventions.</p><p></p><p>We knew at Kindergarten that our difficult child had significant fine motor skills (he started K at 4.5). Nobody else would believe us. It became painfully obvioyus by grade 2, but nobody knew where to send us (back then). Sometimes, a parent's gut feel is correct. Sometimes, we just don't have the experience to know for sure. Either way, if it is possible, it is worth getting it checked out.</p><p></p><p>The symptoms that we saw included major difficulties with tieing shoes, doing buttons, self-feeding, and printing... in this case, the letters "looked" appropriate, but if you wanted difficult child do it, he often went bottom-to-top and right-to-left, which doesn't generate the "flow" necessary for effective written output.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 467776, member: 11791"] Malika - Do you have access to an occupational therapist? No idea what the equiv is in France... here there are two related fields - physiotherapy, and occupational therapy. PT deals with muscles and joints - Occupational Therapist (OT) deals more with the brain-muscle connection (an Occupational Therapist (OT) can explain it better, but that's how I've categorized it in my brain) If so, it does NOT hurt to get an Occupational Therapist (OT) to evaluate J's motor skills. While you're at it, also evaluate for sensory issues. The chances are high that these will come back clear - there may be no issue at all. The advantage of getting the evaluation is two-fold: 1) if there is nothing, it will set your own mind at ease 2) if there is something, NOW is a very good time to start interventions. We knew at Kindergarten that our difficult child had significant fine motor skills (he started K at 4.5). Nobody else would believe us. It became painfully obvioyus by grade 2, but nobody knew where to send us (back then). Sometimes, a parent's gut feel is correct. Sometimes, we just don't have the experience to know for sure. Either way, if it is possible, it is worth getting it checked out. The symptoms that we saw included major difficulties with tieing shoes, doing buttons, self-feeding, and printing... in this case, the letters "looked" appropriate, but if you wanted difficult child do it, he often went bottom-to-top and right-to-left, which doesn't generate the "flow" necessary for effective written output. [/QUOTE]
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