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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs Smith" data-source="post: 100284" data-attributes="member: 3893"><p>Sounds like a motor planning issue more than a motivation issue. This was my son - smart, perfectionistic and devastated because he couldn't get his body to do what his brain wanted and knowing everybody else could do it easily.</p><p></p><p>Any motor planning task (eating, bathing, dressing, riding a bike) required alot of effort. I would either give him another option like a cup with a lid and straw or I would hand-over-hand show him how to do what he wanted while "talking him through it" using detailed descriptive language. Over time, I let him do the skill himself as I explained the steps. Sometimes I would write down the steps so he could do it by himself.</p><p></p><p>It's a long slow process but once he began to see me as a helper, he would come to me before he was so frustrated that he had a meltdown. Good luck, I know how hard it is to see your child so devastated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs Smith, post: 100284, member: 3893"] Sounds like a motor planning issue more than a motivation issue. This was my son - smart, perfectionistic and devastated because he couldn't get his body to do what his brain wanted and knowing everybody else could do it easily. Any motor planning task (eating, bathing, dressing, riding a bike) required alot of effort. I would either give him another option like a cup with a lid and straw or I would hand-over-hand show him how to do what he wanted while "talking him through it" using detailed descriptive language. Over time, I let him do the skill himself as I explained the steps. Sometimes I would write down the steps so he could do it by himself. It's a long slow process but once he began to see me as a helper, he would come to me before he was so frustrated that he had a meltdown. Good luck, I know how hard it is to see your child so devastated. [/QUOTE]
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