Fine Motor Activities for Children and the Tutor System

Fine motor skills occur when the small muscles in the hands/fingers move in coordination with the eyes.
Fine motor skills will usually develop later than gross motor skills. Some of the first fine motor skillsyou may see in infants are done with the hands/arms such as raising their arm up and down or waving with their hand.
Fine motor skills take more effort to develop than do gross motor skills due to changes in their bodies during the growth and development of the nervous system. Providing age appropriate tools in the classroom and/or around the home will help with these changes during growth, making motor development successful.
Fine motor skills are learned using the small muscles in the hands and fingers. Examples of activities which involve the use of fine motor skills are , cutting with scissors, coloring, button and zipper activities, scribbling, lacing, puzzles, peg puzzles,turning pages in a book, playing with play dough,etc.
Developing fine motor skills can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be boring or discouraging. Providing children with the tools, space, and time they need to engage in these activities is the best and most effective way to promote learning in a positive, encouraging, and educational enviroment.
When fine motor skills are disturbed in children due to disabling diseases such as CP, MS, brain or spinal cord injury or surgery the Tutors are a welcome and a helpful device that children enjoy using.
The HandTutor, ArmTutor, Leg Tutor and 3d Tutor have been developed to teach children how to reuse their joints. The unique and successful devices use a dedicated software that utilizes games to enhance and improve their movement.These innovative devices implement an impairment based program with augmented feedback and encourage motor learning through intensive active exercises. These exercises are challenging and motivating and allow for repetitive training tailored to the patient’s performance. The system also includes objective quantitative evaluations that provide the therapist information to customize the most suitable rehabilitation program to the patient’s ability.
The ”Tutors” also use tele rehabilitation for those patients that are home bound or who have recovered sufficiently to get their treatment at home. Leading U.S. and foreign hospitals and outpatient clinics now use the devices whic