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Sensory integration and sense of touch - ANSWER-Children may be opposed to
touching different textures, sensory motor loop
Motor planning - ANSWER-Grading of movements, figuring out how to do the
movement
Visual - ANSWER-Children must able to see the objects they are working wiht
General Developmental - ANSWER-- Development of movement patterns from
gross to fine, proximal to distal
- Ability to combine patterns of stability and mobility
- Joints must be able to stabilize at any point in normal range of motion.
- Straight movement patterns emerge before controlled rotational patterns.
Purposes of arches in the hands - ANSWER-Provide stable base for fingers to
move in isolation
Optimal Hand Function Components - ANSWER-- Muscle tone and strength
- Trunk and shoulder stability
- Range of motion
- Sensory integration and sense of touch
- Motor planning
- Vision and visual perception
,Trunk and shoulder stability - ANSWER-Proximal stability promotes distal
mobility
Reach - ANSWER-Extension and movement of the arm for grasping or placing
objects
Grasp - ANSWER-Attainment of an object with the hand
Carry - ANSWER-Transportation of a handheld object from one place to
another
Voluntary release - ANSWER-Intentional letting go of a handheld object at a
specific time and place
In hand manipulation - ANSWER-Adjustment of an object in the hand after
grasp
Bilateral hand use - ANSWER-Use of two hands together to accomplish an
activity
Review grasp progression - ANSWER-Slide 7
Relation of hand skills to children's occupations - ANSWER-- Play
- Activities of daily living
-- Dressing
-- Bathing and hygiene
-- Eating
- School functions
,-- Manipulative activities
-- Crayons, paper, pencil
-- Scissors
Components of Hand Skills - ANSWER-- Complex interaction of hand skills,
postural mechanisms, cognition, visual perception
- Reach
- Grasp
- Carry
- Voluntary release
- In-hand manipulation
- Bilateral hand use
Impaired hand skills - ANSWER-- Motor problems associated with impaired
hand skills:
-- Inadequate isolation of movements
-- Poorly graded movement
-- Insufficient force
-- Poor timing of movements
-- Limited variety of movement patterns
-- Difficulty with bilateral integration and control
-- Trunk instability or abnormal posture
-- Compensatory patterns of movement
Somatosensory problems impacting hand skills - ANSWER-- Poor tactile
discrimination can result in less feedback from the hand's movement.
- Degree of tactile impairment is not always associated with degree of motor
impairment.
, - Somatosensory problems can relate to motor planning problems.
Pediatric splints can be used to: - ANSWER-- Decrease muscle tone (CP, TBI,
other neurological conditions)
- Maintain functional position
- Increase ROM
- Increase joint stability
- Post-surgical positioning
- Address congenital deformities
Prerequisite skills for pre-writing and scissor skills - ANSWER-- Small muscle
control
-- Separation of sides of hand
- Eye hand coordination
- The ability to hold writing tools and scissors
- The ability to form basic strokes
- Letter perception
-- Recognizing forms, letters
-- Copying geometric forms
Developing pre-requisite pre-writing skills - ANSWER-- Board games
- Stringing beads on pipe cleaners
- Finger puppets
- Play Doh
- Tongs
Random intervention ideas: take rubber bands off plastic animals, puzzles with
pegs on them, picking small things out of a sensory bin, painting rocks, stickers