Other Applicants
Susanna Brown
Marta Hammond
Grant Category
Grant Date
2015-10-21T12:00:00
Description
Different grips support different types of inappropriate grasp patterns. It is difficult for teachers to predict which grips will best help their students. Collaboration with OT can help determine which grip is best for each student. It is helpful to have an assortment of grips available for each problem motor pattern, hand size, and student preference. This grant would purchase a variety of 5 different grips with different levels of support that can be provided for students identified as having problematic pencil grasps.
Success of Program
Observation and monitoring of increased functional grasp compliance with pencil grip use.
Implementation
Occupational therapists (OTs) will store and dispense a variety of pencil grips at each school to students identified by teachers or Occupational Therapist observation as having a dysfunctional writing grasp.
Can you share this grant with your grade level or subject team?
These supplies would be provided by the occupational Therapist to students observed to have a dysfunctional grasp at all schools throughout the district.
Shipping
$0.00
Taxes
$59.04
Notes
Pencil grips are predominantly used at the elementary school level, with the most frequent use in kindergarten through fourth grade, but are also occasionally used at the middle and high school level.
These grips have all been previously trialed and found to be the most effect grip for a specific grasp dysfunction.