Children who have articulation difficulties often have trouble with fine motor skills. If your child has a hard time holding a crayon correctly, try building up the strength of the writing fingers/tripod grasp with these types of activities: 1) Encourage your child to use only … [Read more...]
Fine Motor Delay and Speech Delay Correlation
In my speech therapy practice, I often find that children with articulation delay or disorders often have difficulty with fine motor skills. Speech is the finest, fine motor skill we have. Think about the intricacies required for saying the multisyllabic word “buttercup”. … [Read more...]
Fine Motor Activities
Children with articulation delay often have fine motor delay. At times, a consultation with an occupational therapist (OT) is necessary. Other times children may simply need to be exposed to the types of activities listed below to encourage development of the hand … [Read more...]