If you teach these skills to your child at a young age you will have helped her overcome learning disabilities that could materialize in the classroom later. You are helping your child to be a successful student, long before she enters the classroom. To overlook the interaction between your work and that of the school's is to place a liability on future learning. Research studies have demonstrated a relationship between such developmental learning and academic success in the classroom. Investigations in classrooms and clinics have shown that special attention to early motor training can improve school achievement in the primary grades and beyond.
Many children enter school with inadequate or incomplete motor skills.
They can't hold a pencil, they can't sit still in a chair, they can't follow directions. They are not prepared to cope with the demands placed upon them by classroom tasks. There is a real need for a series of activities to aid the child in learning basic perceptual-motor skills before he enters the classroom situation. A parent always hopes to give a child lasting tools to use in the world. This book was produced with that parent's hopes and dreams in mind.