Description
Cutting with scissors is a basic school skill. Teaching this skill isn’t intuitive, and it can get complicated with special needs kids. They often require adaptations in the form of both tools and instruction. Teachers and parents want practical ideas to help students be successful, and they want kids to be safe without direct physical assistance throughout an activity. Make your life easier with this set of 15 attractive, easy-to-follow Scissor Skills Success Handout Pack. You can also order a HUGE HANDOUT BUNDLE here.
The 15-page packet will be available immediately following payment.
Written by CathyAnn Collyer, OTR, LMT, they work equally well as individual handouts or as part of a larger informational packet. These effective information sheets immediately increase your professional visibility and demonstrate your clinical expertise to parents, to other team members, and to your department staff.
Here are some of the ways to use this Scissor Skills Success Handout Pack in your clinical practice:
- Assemble a take-home packet after team meetings or clinical supervision sessions.
- Optimize treatment carryover by underlining important issues to address and specific techniques to try in the classroom or at home.
- Professional handouts demonstrate your knowledge base in a team meeting, facility in-service, or PTA presentation.
- Add these handouts to your department orientation for student therapists, new grads, or providers transitioning from another specialty into pediatrics.
Table of Contents – Scissor Skills Success Handout Pack:
When (and How) do You Introduce Scissors?
How Scissor Skills Support Handwriting
Developmental Sequence for Scissor Skills
Hand and Finger Positioning for Cutting
Which Scissors are Right for Beginners
Should You Offer a Child “Toy” Scissors?
Pros and Cons of Adaptive Scissors
Paper Choice Matters!
Cutting on a Line: 7 Things to Consider
Using Crafts to Teach Cutting with Scissors
Teaching Scissor Skills to Kids Without Hand Dominance
5 Ways to Offer a Child Assistance with Scissors
Create and Use a Cutting Vocabulary
Transitioning a Child to Using Sharp Scissors
Beyond Paper: Cutting Tape, Fabric, and More
View all of the resources created by CathyAnn Collyer, OTR, LMT
