by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp
A few years ago I was doing a PD session for a group of first-grade teachers and I taught them the “Alligator Chop” — a grip cue song where children snap their fingers like an alligator’s jaws before picking up their pencil (The TV Teacher, 2011)....
by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp
Walk into most elementary classrooms and you’ll see children writing flat on their desks. Worksheets flat. Drawing flat. Coloring flat. Everything flat. Walk into my OT class push-in session and the first thing I do is prop something up. I’ve been...
by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp
A Visual Guide to Pencil Grip Development That Actually Makes Sense Last week, a kindergarten teacher showed me her classroom pencil grasp poster and asked, “Why doesn’t this match what I’m seeing with my kids?” She pointed to five different...
by Miss Jaime | Ask an OT, OT Advocacy
If you’ve been in the school-based therapy world for more than a minute, you know the feeling of looking at the teachers’ salary schedule, looking at your master’s or doctoral degree, looking at your mountains of specialized continuing...
by Miss Jaime | OT Advocacy, School Services: OT, Special Educ
Here’s something that should make every school-based PT and OT practitioner sit up and pay attention: we completed groundbreaking research showing that 94.9% of New York school physical therapy providers believe they should have the opportunity to pursue educational...
by Miss Jaime | Fine Motor & Bilateral Skills, Grip/Grasp, Handwriting & Visual Motor Skills, School Services: OT
The Truth About Pencil Grip Research That Every OTP, Teacher, and Parent Needs to Know I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard it in IEP meetings, teacher lounges, and even OT conferences: “Well, research shows that grasp doesn’t really matter...
