Are you looking for fine motor skill apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.
Button Board– Introduce your children to color with this creative game. The gameplay has other benefits, including hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills development, and improving concentration. Assemble incomplete pictures by dragging colored buttons into place. Free play mode allows children to create their own designs using preset colors. The gameplay is customizable using the child-lock key that modifies gameplay to fit your child’s needs.
Dexteria– Dexteria offers therapeutic exercises developed to improve fine motor skills and handwriting in kids and adults. It can also be used to build strength and improve motor control. For the best result, the exercises should be done regularly in small sessions. Dexteria is also designed with automatic tracker and self-reporting feature so that parents, teachers, and therapists can monitor both compliance and progress
Dress Up: Professions– This is a fun app for young children to learn to identify a color, professions, items of coloring, and how to differentiate left from right. Children also develop their fine motor skills and creativity as they dress up the cute children on the app, which contains about 30 puzzles and 100 garments for 15 professions. This app was developed by PlayToddlers and is suitable for both male and female children.
Special Words – Special Words is a speech and language development app that is adaptable to individual student’s abilities and needs. This app was specifically created for children and adults with learning disabilities and/or those with autism. There are five areas of targeted development covered by the app: communication and language skills, sight-word vocabulary, listening and speaking skills, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Teachers and parents can import text, photos, music, and record messages to personalize the app and target student’s specific interests. Adjustable animation speeds are also included to accommodate different abilities and concentration levels.
