All hub content tagged as - skills

Top Tips: Supporting Your Child to Focus on and Track Objects

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Cognitive Development: Supporting Your Child to Focus on and Track Objects – activities to support the development of visual tracking skills, needed for most daily activities, coordination and physical control.

Top Tips: Teaching Your Child to Use a Spoon

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Physical Development and Self Care Skills: Teaching Your Child to Use a Spoon – activities to support your child to develop the fine motor skills needed to begin using a spoon.

Top Tips: Teaching Your Child to Drink from an Open Cup

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Physical Development and Self Care Skills: Teaching Your Child to Drink from an Open Cup – activities to support your child to develop the oral skills needed for drinking / feeding.

Top Tips: Teaching Your Child to Use Scissors

Type of content: Resource

Fine Motor Skills: Teaching Your Child to Use Scissors - lots of activities to develop the 'squeezing' action of the thumb and fingers that is required for using scissors.

Top Tips: Teaching Your Child to Thread

Type of content: Resource

Fine Motor Skills: Teaching Your Child to Thread - an important skill that underlies a number of daily living tasks including being able to fasten and unfasten buttons.

Top Tips: Teaching Your Child to Post/Release Objects

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Fine Motor Skills: Teaching Your Child to Post/Release Objects - an important skill to learn before tackling more complex fine motor skills such as puzzles, shape sorters, threading, etc.

Top Tips: Teaching Your Child to Develop a ‘Pincer Grasp’

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Fine Motor Skills: Teaching Your Child to Develop a ‘Pincer Grasp’ - activities to support the development of fine hand skills which require a pincer grasp.