by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp
🎥 Free Live Webinar: Discover How Children Grip & Grasp Thu, Oct 1, 2026 · 7:00 PM EDT · Book Launch Live! Save My Seat → We wrote the Gripipedia because we felt there should be a MUCH easier and faster way to answer the same questions over and over. We wanted a way...
by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp
Sensory processing plays a bigger role in pencil grasp development than many of us realize, and sometimes we miss the forest for the trees when we focus only on finger positioning without understanding the sensory foundation that makes functional grasps possible. The...
by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp, Handwriting & Visual Motor Skills
🎥 Free Live Webinar: Discover How Children Grip & Grasp Thu, Oct 1, 2026 · 7:00 PM EDT · Book Launch Live! Save My Seat → Last year, I got a panicked email from a second-grade teacher: “I have a student whose pencil grasp looks perfect, just like the poster in...
by Miss Jaime | Grip/Grasp, MTSS
I sat in a meeting early in my career — one of those meetings where you’re the only occupational therapist in a room full of people who think OT begins and ends with the referral form. A second-grader had been struggling with handwriting since kindergarten. His...
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 grasp 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...
