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Tips on writing skills for son with cerebral palsy?

My son is 4 and has cerebral palsy. He has just started primary 1 in a mainstream school. Any tips on writing skills?
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Without knowing your son's level of mobility I have found some websites that might help:
How to help a child with CP to handwrite
Handwriting and Cerebral Palsy
I would be really happy to discuss this with you further.
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I just discussed it without my mother and her experiences with me. I would also say make sure your son emotionally understands what is going on and what his disability is, and that is okay that he is disabled and if he struggles with certain things. When was at school I could intellectually understand what was happening, but emotionally I couldn't process it. Like I put my thumb in my split and trapped it, so my thumb started bleeding. Or I couldn't spell my own name and started crying or tying my own shoes laces. Things like that. Then when I moved out of reception, they put me in the lower class and I thought how am I going to learn as much as the people in the upper class. I couldn't emotionally understand it. So you need to be attentive with your son and keep an eye that people ask him how he wants to be treated and what he thinks he can do. Don't try and downplay his disability, but take an interest in it.
What sort of support are you getting in terms of stretching, emotional support for yourself and understand what his disability is and how it affects him? As my mother says nobody explained to her what was wrong with me and how it would affect me. Nobody taught my mother how to help me with stretching or exercises and she had no emotional support to help her either. Also if he is unable to ride a two wheel bike, get him a three wheel bike because that was cool when I was younger.
I'm going to tag my colleague @Jean_Scope into this discussion. Jean is an Occupational Therapist and Scope's Enabling Environments Specialist.
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Here is a resource aimed at promoting fine motor skills and dexterity:
https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/50175/OT-Early-Years-Activity-Sheets-March-2011.pdf
Best Wishes
Jean
Jean Merrilees BSc MRCOT
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Really pleased your son is settling in well and enjoying school. The resources above looks really good. Having mild cerebral palsy myself, I found practising helpful with fun activities like "writing" numbers and letters with my finger in sand to improve my fine motor control which helped with writing