Description
Make your life easier with this set of 15 attractive, easy-to-follow Building Utensil Skills Handout Pack. Independent utensil use allows a child to feel a sense of agency, control the pace of their meal, and build a wider range of oral-motor skills. Feeding utensils are the very first tools a child learns to use. Immediate feedback and the reward of getting that delicious meal speeds up motor skill development. And finally, these skills transfer to…handwriting! This is part of the discounted bundle DEAL.
Written by CathyAnn Collyer, OTR, LMT, they work equally well as individual handouts or as part of a larger informational packet in school or at home. They immediately increase your professional visibility and demonstrate your clinical expertise.
How can you use this Building Utensil Skills Handout Pack in YOUR practice?
Are you a new therapist, or new to pediatrics?
These handouts will get you up to speed in treatment quickly!
Are you giving a presentation to your team, the PTA, or a local organization?
Pick the take-home handouts that will make them remember you!
Doing an IEP review with parents?
Share the handouts that reflect their child’s current goals.
Supervising a student therapist?
These handouts will help them develop their treatment plans and write functional goals.
Assigned to a special needs classroom?
Laminate a few handouts so that aides and new staff can reference them.
Table of Contents:
- The Three Stages of Utensil Grasp
- Angled Spoons and Other “Discoveries”
- Teaching Scooping and Stirring
- Use “Starter Bowl” Magic to Build Utensil Skills
- Keep Those Bowls and Plates Steady
- Don’t Forget Posture!
- Teaching Fork Use
- Teach Parents a Fun Utensil Game
- Try Training Chopsticks for Utensil Control
- The Race to the Finish: Emptying the Bowl
- Wiping Up Spills
- Teaching Knife Skills
- Teaching Kids to Pour
- Why Kids STOP Using Utensils
- Motivating Tweens and Teens
The 15-page packet will be available immediately following payment.
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