Fine Motor Difficulties | ADHD Information

my daughter goes to ot/pt (occupational/physical therapy), insurance pays......Target has a pretty good variety of non zipper/snap pantsDid this child ever get interventions for his fine motor problems? My son can unbutton/untie, but can only print (not write). What is his diagnosis and who diagnosed him? Any other problems or just this? The school doesn't see this and intervene? Grrrrrrrrr...My son is 13.MomWI38935.246099537Brandon has extreme fine motor problems. He is 11 and doesn't know how to tie his shoes yet. I have tried to show him many times. He doesn't care if he can tie them.  I have to buy him tie up shoes. He wears orthotics and needs really good  shoes that support his foot. I have extreme difficulties finding shorts for him. He can't undo and do up the buttons. I can do this at home. He wouldn't be able to go to the bathroom at school though. The jean  shorts  and jeans made nowadays have buttons on them. A lot of the other pants do too. It doesn't bother him thathe can't do up these buttons.  I don't want the other kids to start teasing him. Does anyone else's child(ren) have this problem? How do you help them?

Brandon gets help from the community accesss centre. They come to see him at his school about about 3 times a year. I did ask his Learning and Life skills teacher to help teach him tie his shoes and she agreed. He is diagnosed with ADHD, intellectual developmnental delays, fine motor difficlties. His Pediatrician diagnosed him.

Unfortunately we don't have Target stores here in Canada.

Can you get more interventions than three times a year? That's not very much... Do you mean three times a week? What is "intellectual development delays?"MomWI38935.4619907407Maybe this is more than ADHD. I'd have him tested.i had similar problems with buttons and shoe tying as a child, my handwritng is still horrible but slightly improved since i started adderall. i also had trouble learning to ride a bike! does your  son have similar handwriting problems?

[QUOTE=MomWI]Can you get more interventions than three times a year? That's not very much... Do you mean three times a week? What is "intellectual development delays?"[/QUOTE]

No he gets the access centre 3 times per year. I guess they have a lot of kids to help. Intellectual developmental delays means he has troulble learning things.

[QUOTE=candyhound21410]Maybe this is more than ADHD. I'd have him tested.[/QUOTE]  I am currently waiting to have him tested for Aspergers. I have been waiting a long time! IMac38942.9224305556 My son (13yo) has fine motor skill problems and tying shoes was a problem until about a year ago.  I took the kind of clasp that goes on the strings at the necks and bottom edges of jackets and threaded the laces into these (you can get them at a fabric store.  I then tied the ends of the laces together so the toggle clasps wouldn't come off.  I hope I described it well enough to understand, but I don't know what those thingies are called.  Let me know if I wasn't clear. susieb38935.6432638889What is really a hit here in Texas are the athletic shorts that the basketball players wear that have all elastic waist bands. It makes getting them on and off really easy. Check your local athletic store.

Good Luck!i have a hard time printing on a line and if there isn't a line, it isn't a pretty site![QUOTE=jerbear]i had similar problems with buttons and shoe tying as a child, my handwritng is still horrible but slightly improved since i started adderall. i also had trouble learning to ride a bike! does your  son have similar handwriting problems?[/QUOTE] My son doesn't know how to write. He can print although his printing is very large and he doesn't print on the line.

[QUOTE=susieb]lovemyboy, have you had him tested for and have in his IEP/504 writing difficulties?  My ds has dysgraphia, which is a disconnect between the brain and the hand where the hand can't do what the brain tells it to, the message doesn't get there correctly?
Is there an accomodation the school system can grant him?  Sometimes I think that the writing problem is the biggest one with the ADD as a distant second.
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The Access Centre suggested that Brandon gets a type of laptop for his own personal use next year in school. He will use this to type stories etc. He can type a lot easier then he can print and with less frustration. So I have to wait and see if the school board purchases this. I plan on going to see it if they do. He can't draw anything and it really frustrates him. IMAO. I can't draw either and I don't care. The teacher doesn't push him to do art. This makes him happy. He is allowed extra time to answer questions in his book due to his fine motor problems. I help him at home if he doesn't finish at school.

My dd is ten and still has troubles with ties and buttons. And if she can not handle it she just dont care for it.

And she never learned how to ride bic and lineskate, has troubles with catching ball too...

www.target.com lovemyboy, have you had him tested for and have in his IEP/504 writing difficulties?  My ds has dysgraphia, which is a disconnect between the brain and the hand where the hand can't do what the brain tells it to, the message doesn't get there correctly?
Is there an accomodation the school system can grant him?  Sometimes I think that the writing problem is the biggest one with the ADD as a distant second.