With targeted content, this PD was designed to give you an overall introduction to this specialty area of OT.

Have you kept up with evidence in working on children's fine motor skills?

Do you need an opportunity to reflect and gain new ideas?

Can you articulate your clinical reasoning to parents and other professionals?

This 1-hour PD is designed to give you an overall introduction to this speciality area of OTs with current best practices and evidence.

The following aspects are covered:

Introduction:

    impact of modern lifestyles and factors on children's fine motor development, gross motor and fine motor link, the correlation between gross motor, fine motor and other developmental areas

• Early Intervention Principles

• Foundational models and frameworks

• Evidence-base

• Motor development principles

• Where to start: analysis, assessment, goal setting and planning

• Tuning in your observation skills: muscle tone, muscle strength, motor planning, grasp, hand dominance, bilateral integration, eye-hand coordination

• Intervention strategies and plenty of activity ideas - for the areas above including hand writing and typing

• Evaluation of intervention

• Sources and ready-to-use resources