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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. I am a school psychologist and when I looked into OT for my child I couldn't find any peer reviewed, quality research supporting most things OT's do. My son had fine motor issues and some "sensory issues". I wasn't surprised because he went to a play based preschool in California where he never has to pick up a pencil or crayon  if he didn't want to do so (and he never did) and didn't have to wear shoes.  So. I surprise when he turned 5 he couldn't write or even copy letters. People on this forum really seem to dislike  Kumon but for him it worked wonders because he was required to trace and then write letters every day for 10 minutes. Within a few months he had excellent printing skills and could effortlessly write letters and then words using the correct formation (top to bottom, etc).  My son had awful fine motor skills because he never used his hand for writing. His grip was strong from playing on monkey bars or making play-Doh but he hadn't used and coordinated those muscles for writing. [/quote]

Please tell me you aren't actually a school psychologist? Or maybe I shouldn't be surprised ...

Preschoolers naturally develop fine motor skills, including writing/pre-writing, regardless of whether that is expressly taught in preschool or at home.  If a 5 year old literally can't write a single letter (or isn't able to do pre-writing activities like scribbling or getting a strong mark on paper), then they have an actual fine motor delay.  It has nothing to do with being in a play=based preschool. In fact, the whole idea of play-based preschool is that children acquire these skills through play; not that they don't acquire them at all!

However, assuming your child actually had a fine motor delay, I'm sure that Kumon plus a focused and sensitive teacher probably could do much of what an OT would do as far as handwriting goes.  [/quote]

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