Activities to develop fine motor skills can often be hard to find because toys today are geared towards entertainment. However, when you step back and look at educational products you will find that educational products can be just as entertaining and sometimes even more rewarding than any toy in the house.
AJ loves playing with me in the afternoon.

Unfortunately, the brain is the one organ that is most affect by alcohol. Surprisingly though, many pregnant woman do not know this nor do they understand what damage they can do to their unborn child.
Alcohol damages parts of the brain that give us memory, self-control, coordination, and judgment (thus, cause/effect and consequences). Most children with FAS have problems with learning, attention spans, behavior, and fine motor skills because of this.

What are the problems your child will face?
1. Visual Discrimination: problems identifying color, form, shape, size, position and where an object is in its environment. Difficulty gathering information from graphs, charts, and pictures and recognize shapes, letters, or objects when there is a background.
2. Visual Closure: Inability to identify or recognize a symbol or object when the entire object is not there. For example, AJ can not tell me what is missing from a face if the nose is not there.
3. Object recognition: Inability to recognize familiar objects. Some researchers believe that this is due to visual memory or …read more