Last week in OT, Justin started working with a crayon. He knows what to do, sort of, but he mostly just taps the crayon and makes dots. Coloring is good for him to develop shoulder and arm strength. He needs to learn how hard to press on the page. And he is also learning how to color on the walls! Coloring on a piece of paper taped to the wall allows him to work different muscles than just coloring on a table. Miss Caroline started showing him what to do by doing it herself, and then she held his hand and colored, and then she let him try. So this was the progression: Her colors are in the upper right corner, then he up and down lines she did holding his hand, and then the dots are his of course, but THEN, the horizontal lines are ALL HIS! He did the three strong lines across the middle of the page. When Miss Caroline came out with this paper and showed it to me, I was so excited! Justin's first coloring page!
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