Handwriting Skills

Zack had his usual OT session today, and at the end of the session, he was doing quite a bit of handwriting on the blackboard using chalk.

He was asked to write A to Z, and he inverted a few alphabets like ‘S’ and ‘P’ and when you ask him whether it was written correctly, he would immediately realise his mistake, but at the point of writing it from beginning to the end (with little prompting), it was fantastic that he managed to write all the alphabets.  Even the therapist was impressed and I gave the credit to the school who probably had been ‘drilling’ him quite a bit.  He could also write his own name and surname without any spelling error or writing errors.  Just to watch out for spacing in between letters, and straightness (he was writing on blackboard, so no lines to guide him….)

It was really cute that at the end of the session, I left Zack on his own to play at the blackboard while waiting for the OT to give us some print-outs, I saw that Zack was drawing a picture on the board!  It was a picture of himself, with a face, eyes, mouth, hair, hands and legs.  No ‘body’, as it was more of a stick picture, you know, the sort that kids draw when they are young - a big head, and stick hands and legs…..really cute.  I insisted that the therapist see it before Zack erased it, as I liked it so much.  Only wished I had a camera to take a picture of it there and then.  Will do it next time when I get him to give us more drawings.