All About Autism

[mashy]

Get a pencil grip from popular. Or just put some plasticine on the pencil.


Mine still have issues with handwriting. When he can write neatly, he can’t think. When he can think, he can’t write.

[tyeogh]

Number 2's. Notice her thumb goes AROUND the pencil


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Number 3's. Can't be bothered. Worse than doctor's handwriting.

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Number 1's. Probably the only one who got it (almost) right. Too near the tip. But what do I know....blah.

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[ImMeeMee]

tyeogh


My NT dd2 was like your boy in the first picture. Not only her grip, her strokes were 'wrong' too - she writes 'o' in clockwise style, and by therapist standards, she would have failed. But heck, her handwriting is functional and school work reasonable ... Now she is slowly getting back to the 3-finger grip at P4.

So they do adapt along the way ...

BTW, i grip like your #2. Wasnt told that it was incorrect until I started working and my lady boss commented that I was holding the pen wrongly. Imagine my aghast expression then ...

[tyeogh]

ImMeeMee:

tyeogh


My NT dd2 was like your boy in the first picture. Not only her grip, her strokes were 'wrong' too - she writes 'o' in clockwise style, and by therapist standards, she would have failed. But heck, her handwriting is functional and school work reasonable ... Now she is slowly getting back to the 3-finger grip at P4.

So they do adapt along the way ...

BTW, i grip like your #2. Wasnt told that it was incorrect until I started working and my lady boss commented that I was holding the pen wrongly. Imagine my aghast expression then ...

The first pic is my 2nd child. NT girl. Now P4. Also many wrong strokes. Gave up correcting. I am blessed with different talents. LoL.

[ImMeeMee]

Am referring to this one.

tyeogh:

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[tyeogh]

Oh. ok. So he is not alone. LoL

[tyeogh]

slmkhoo:

Don't worry too much. The child will change his grip if he finds that it's too uncomfortable, too slow or whatever eventually. I also think that therapists are usually aiming for the \"perfect\" and sometimes being unecessarily scare-mongering. Think back of your schooldays and remember how many weird and wonderful ways of holding pencils there were among your classmates? I have seen students in top schools with excellent results with odd grips. Performance depends more on what is in the mind than how the pencil is held.

The Oracle has spoken. Ohmmmm.

[tyeogh]

ImMeeMee:

BTW, i grip like your #2. Wasnt told that it was incorrect until I started working and my lady boss commented that I was holding the pen wrongly. Imagine my aghast expression then ...

Missed this part. Did I hear you right. You grip like her?! Thumb over pen, pen straight up? My bad for scolding her then....

[ImMeeMee]

tyeogh:

ImMeeMee:

BTW, i grip like your #2. Wasnt told that it was incorrect until I started working and my lady boss commented that I was holding the pen wrongly. Imagine my aghast expression then ...

Missed this part. Did I hear you right. You grip like her?! Thumb over pen, pen straight up? My bad for scolding her then....

Maybe not that straight as hers. But I hold my thumb over my first finger like hers.

Yah, why scold her? If her handwriting is functional and she gets her work done ... dont be such a tigerdad ... :evil:

[Double E]

tyeogh:

slmkhoo:

Don't worry too much. The child will change his grip if he finds that it's too uncomfortable, too slow or whatever eventually. I also think that therapists are usually aiming for the \"perfect\" and sometimes being unecessarily scare-mongering. Think back of your schooldays and remember how many weird and wonderful ways of holding pencils there were among your classmates? I have seen students in top schools with excellent results with odd grips. Performance depends more on what is in the mind than how the pencil is held.

The Oracle has spoken. Ohmmmm.

Agree slmkhoo, lol! I once told a therapist that our PM LHL also didn't have a good pencil grip and he is a left hander but look at him now, the highest paid politician in the world.