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Fine motor skills plays an integral role in performing and executing various essential functions in our day to day life. Be it writing, buttoning, or tying shoe-laces we need to have not only good eye-hand co-ordination but also firm grip and dexterity function. फाइन मोटर स्किल्स अर्थात पुरे हाथ से कार्य करने की क्षमता एवं दक्षता.  Babies tend to acquire these gross-fine motor skills step by step as early as first few months after birth.  While kids have their own pace in acquisition of these skills which they tend to expertise with time, some children often lag behind specially those with neurological developmental disorder like cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder, PDD etc.  This lack of uni/bilateral coordination, poor wrist movement, poor pinch strength contribute to dependence on others for performing ADL tasks such as holding fork-spoon, buttoning, writing and thus lowers self-esteem of child. हमारे हाथों की मजबूत पकड़ किसी भी कार्य को दक्षता से करने क...

Fine motor skills are the coordination of small muscle movements which occur e.g., in the fingers, usually in coordination with the eyes. In application to motor skills of hands (and fingers) the term dexterity is commonly used. The abilities which involve the use of hands develop over time, starting with primitive gestures such as grabbing at objects to more precise activities that involve precise eye–hand coordination. Fine motor skills are skills that involve a refined use of the small muscles controlling the hand, fingers, and thumb. The development of these skills allows one to be able to complete tasks such as writing, drawing, and buttoning. As children refine their motor skills, they are able to communicate by written expression, starting off with scribbling and moving on to printing and writing. Lets take a brief summary of development of hand grasp: In infants (age 0 to 3 months), the Hands most often remain closed has grasp reflex (grasps objects involuntarily i...