From Rattles to Writing: A Parent's Guide to Hand Skills

From Rattles to Writing: A Parent's Guide to Hand Skills is a comprehensive book of sensory-perceptual activities designed especially for parents of babies, infants to age 5, to build foundational skills to prepare them for writing and academic success. This guide (written by an occupational therapist) describes the songs, games, toys, activities and adaptations that help children develop the visual-perceptual skills needed to read and the eye-hand coordination to write. This guide helps provide the right activities at each stage of a young child's development. Learn about typical development to introduce activities at the right time and in the right sequence.   Features:

• how to help babies develop the motor skills to roll, crawl, sit, and walk-and older children to jump, hop and skip
• what creative toys, games, and crafts make using hands fun, easy and successful
• what strategies help children learn to manipulate scissors and control a pencil
• what the popular (but confusing) child development lingo means
• how to provide sensorimotor experiences that promote brain function and learning