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School wanting to put Bipolar son in "adaptive behavior class" please help!
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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 415797"><p>A little off-topic here, but you said he has issues with fine motor skills. Is he is any kind of occupational therapy to help him work on these? I would think art and music would help his motor skills (if he's working with instruments). Does he like to color and write at home? Do anything else that uses fine motor skills for fun, like crafts, models, etc? </p><p>He could always start with lower scale models of cars or something and work towards 1:72 scale as he gets better. The models usually involve using something sharp to separate parts and also sometimes to scrape a good surface for glue, so he'd need a good bit of parental help and supervision, but it would be something you could use as quality time together with a tangible thing to show his progress as he improves. And even people with great fine motor skills need a lot of practice to get models to look right, so if a few of you are doing different ones of the same scale he can actually <em>see</em> that it's not hard just for him, that everyone needs practice.</p><p>Jigsaw puzzles might also be a good way to work on his motor skills and can also be a good family bonding activity.</p><p></p><p>I know you asked about school, just wanted to toss in some ideas on things that might help outside of school, too. Figured if he has a way to practice and measure his progress (and family bonding is good, too), it might help his frustration levels all around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 415797"] A little off-topic here, but you said he has issues with fine motor skills. Is he is any kind of occupational therapy to help him work on these? I would think art and music would help his motor skills (if he's working with instruments). Does he like to color and write at home? Do anything else that uses fine motor skills for fun, like crafts, models, etc? He could always start with lower scale models of cars or something and work towards 1:72 scale as he gets better. The models usually involve using something sharp to separate parts and also sometimes to scrape a good surface for glue, so he'd need a good bit of parental help and supervision, but it would be something you could use as quality time together with a tangible thing to show his progress as he improves. And even people with great fine motor skills need a lot of practice to get models to look right, so if a few of you are doing different ones of the same scale he can actually [I]see[/I] that it's not hard just for him, that everyone needs practice. Jigsaw puzzles might also be a good way to work on his motor skills and can also be a good family bonding activity. I know you asked about school, just wanted to toss in some ideas on things that might help outside of school, too. Figured if he has a way to practice and measure his progress (and family bonding is good, too), it might help his frustration levels all around. [/QUOTE]
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