In So Many Words

As with many kids on the autism spectrum, Michael has difficulty with some fine motor skills, especially related to handwriting. He still has trouble with coloring, although he has improved a lot, and he will go through an activity/coloring books and do all the activities but ignore the coloring pages.

I was so excited when this paper came home from school last week. The OT gave him this page of “jelly bean letters” for his to fill in with colored pencils, using a pencil grip. He was grumbling at first, but once he saw that he could do a good job on it, he even asked her to send the rest of the alphabet home with him, and he has been working on them off and on all week.

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I was pleasantly surprised to find a certificate in Michael’s school folder the other day congratulating him for having artwork on the school website. I looked it up and found this picture he drew of a house:

You can see the other selected pictures from his classmates at the Paxtang website. Evidently they have been studying Matisse!

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