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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best OT I did was having my kid do Kumon where you go once ir twice a week and do some pre writing and reading activities then he had “homework” we worked in together the other 5-6 days.

I tried just buying workbooks but having someone actually be checking his work took the pressure off me. It was good that one on one everyday he learned to firm his letters correctly, learned letter sounds, then learned to read and write words.

He went to a play based preschool so he never chose to do the fine motor activities. We started in the fall before kindergarten when he turned 5. I thought it was well worth the $125 a month (it might be more now).

https://kumon.sg/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Table-of-Learning-ENGLISH.pdf[/quote]

Op here. Thank you so much! His brother was in kumon for grade 1-3 . I was thinking to put him in kumon since kindergarten is only half day here. [/quote]

If the goals are just learning to zip and pre-writing I wouldn’t even bother with having the OT push in for 30 min a week. Start kumon NOW. You have to sit there to make sure his grip is correct and he is forming letters correctly. He needs to build up the strength and dexterity in his hand muscles. Doing 10-15 minutes a day of paper and pencil tasks with the kumon papers is going to get there faster because it’s 7 days a week. The first level of preschool Kumon is tracing, staying in the lines when connecting two dots, etc.

We also got an indoor climbing wall and put it up in the playroom to further develop hand strength /coordination. It is similar to this.

https://www.amazon.com/Avenlur-Convertible-Montessori-Playground-Gymnastics/dp/B0CXYVKK18/ref=asc_df_B0BRBS3F1L?th=1&psc=1#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_feature_div

We didn’t want any services at his preschool because we felt it could be seen as stigmatizing and I just couldn’t find evidence 30 min of OT a week was effective. When I looked at research on OT for 4 and 5 year olds there isn’t a lot of good research showing it is effective.

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