Handwriting

Fine motor skills are the basics for so many of our day-to-day activities. Just think about it. Take yourself through a typical day and see how often you use your hands. Or better yet, tie your hands up for a day. It's not just about writing, it's about all the activities that utilize our fingers, hands, forearms and all the intrinsic muscles within. Credit goes to those therapists, teachers and parents who spend countless hours working with individuals to make their lives a little easier and more functional.

Handwriting is a big part of our fine motor activities and for a good reason. Handwriting is an important communication tool. Children with better handwriting tend to do better in school and for many reasons. Teachers can read their work better and their performance on paper is often better put together and more coordinated. The Abilitations catalog offers you some really great tools for improving and learning good handwriting skills. Both the Handwriting without Tears and Learn to Write programs (see catalog) have been tested (even by our own children). Also available in the Abilitations catalog are many fine motor manipulatives and games that encourage improvements in fine motor abilities, plus other fine-motor-related products such as Rainy Day Indoor Play Ground Bar, Hand Exercisers, Writing Boards.

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