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liloleme
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11 Oct 2008, 11:17 am

DW_a_mom wrote:

Have you requested an SST referral at school? Oh, wait, you home school / charter school? Since writing is an educational issue, the school has a vested interest in dealing with it. My son has OT through school, although the amount he gets is very limited. Still, if you have any way to access that resource, do it. It was actually the writing issue that eventually alerted us to my son's Asperger's. We started with an SST, OT review, but without having a special ed qualifier, she couldn't actually work with him, so my question was, "how do we get a special ed qualifier?"

I did go ahead and request an IEP eval for my son through his Charter school. Im hoping that the Regional Center will be finished with thier eval before hand as they can help us with the IEP process.

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11 Oct 2008, 9:06 pm

inexpensive fine motor exercises- clip clothespins onto a card/clothesline, screwing/unscrewing nuts & bolts, painting, coloring, most arts & crafts, opening & closing ziploc bags, popping bubblewrap only using your index finger & thumb, playing marbles, ripping open junk mail, using scissors to cut up old magazines/newspapers

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11 Oct 2008, 10:22 pm

I hear that putting some dried beans out on a table and having the child pick them up with tweezers and put them in a cup is helpful for fine motor.

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11 Oct 2008, 10:31 pm

I think an occupational therapist would probably help a lot.

EvilTeach
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13 Oct 2008, 8:11 pm

I don't want to seem to be too far off the topic, but I recommend Badmitton.

It is a one on one game, that moves fast enough to generally keep an Aspies attention.

It did wonders for me when I was growing up.

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