Comments on: Try This Tuesday #14: Flip Crayons

By: Another Piece of the Puzzle » Try This Tuesdays: October

Another Piece of the Puzzle » Try This Tuesdays: October — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:06:52 +0000

[...] TTT#14: Flip Crayons [...]

By: Danette

Danette — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:20:39 +0000

Where did you find those? We got some triangular-shaped crayons once but Bitty wouldn't use them. What's odd is that when he was a little over a year, I remember him using a tripod grasp naturally. I remember it because I was stunned, my twins were still working on it, with considerable time and effort spent in OT and at school to learn, and here he did it naturally? After he regressed, sure enough he lost his tripod grip too and has had to relearn it. It's a challenge b/c he has very little attention span for coloring, it's just not his thing. Unless walls or furniture are involved, then he's all for it, lol. Yes, we are some of those mean parents that encourage the use of paper over furniture (haha). I'll have to look for some of those short crayons.

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:49:21 +0000

Maddy – yes, I am hoping the school will test out the different grips before we need to start buying them ourselves!

Amazing Grace – thank you for another awesome list. I am learning so much from you about being a good advocate.

Frogs Mom – Hope he likes the short ones!

Tammy – I didn't think he would ever want to color, either, but it finally kicked in once he felt that he had a little bit of control over where the crayon would go. Hang in there.

By: Tammy and Parker

Tammy and Parker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:19:32 +0000

Those are great crayons. We are still working on getting Parker to develop a desire to color.

By: Frogs Mom

Frogs Mom — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:40:54 +0000

What cool crayons! Frog is still very resistant to coloring. We've tried a lot of different shapes of crayons, but we haven't tries short – hum, I think I know what we will be doing today ;0) Thanks for the idea!

By: Amazing_Grace

Amazing_Grace — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:20:45 +0000

File To Give Teachers Before AS Training

I have in my son's IEP that a training session is to be conducted before school starts including all teachers, aides, counselors, administrators, bus drivers, etc., who will have contact with him.

I give each person a file (one of those folders with brass fasteners that hold papers inside) that I have done and I go over it during the meeting. In the file is the following:

By: Maddy

Maddy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:14:35 +0000

We started with the ancient equivalent of chubby markers, but we had other issues to deal with as well.

They've come a long way now and will hold pencils of one kind and another, but now we need to work on the'correct' manner or grip. There are lots of different types that fit over the pencil to help aid this process. [they're all darned expensive, very little and easily lost!]
Cheers