Fine Motor Control using Q-tips to paint

This young lad shows how easy he finds doing things like painting this spiders web with ‘Q-tips’.  That was not always the case, he used to find difficulties with fine motor control.  Now, after several years of practice, you would hardly know he had had a problem.

Dyspraxia, usually known as Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a Specific Disability affecting muscle control – fine & gross motor skills.

Poor muscle control, especially in the hand and fingers, leads to problems with literacy and numeracy.

Superb list of Educational Games to help with fine and gross motor control.