Handwriting progress

A short post tonight based on photos taken recently, cos I'm tired. Had a long day today with therapy and two separate unexpected visitors this evening. I'm also still very upset with my helper and will have the agency deal with her tomorrow.

You'll see from the photos that he can form the letters.

His problem is still with gripping the writing instrument properly. His three fingers are still too far from the paper to allow him to write with strength and with better legibility - it's probably an issue with his wrist, finger, hand, arm, elbow...

The other issue is getting him to write horizontally rather than sloping down. It helps when there's a line to follow...but sometimes it still slopes even though there is a line to guide him. I think it's an issue with him not having learnt to adjust his body, adjust the paper etc as he writes further away from where he first wrote his first letter.

In school, he also writes much slower than other kids. He can be having full concentration on his writing but still end up being one of the last few to finish writing. His other friends on the other hand can waste a great deal of time talking (and not writing), then write very quickly and pass up the work before him.

The photo below was taken prior to cutting it up to make labels for the science related craft I last posted.

His writing is below mine. He did it entirely by himself. I wasn't even in the room with him. I just gave him instruction to copy what I wrote, and let him choose the marker colour. He used crayola washable marker, which is chunky and easier to handle (also makes cleaning up easy as it's washable ink!)

He wrote using a chunky pen with a slightly texturised grip area. He wrote it for his grandparents who visited last Saturday. Grandma was very happy to see that he can write the alphabet and numbers.