Fork-Noodle Grab

Dublin loves Ramen, but only when the noodles are long.

When you chop them up, making the noodles easier to manipulate with a spoon, he will sit in front of the bowl, sniff its contents, and then disinterestedly slip out of his chair and walk over to the pantry to find another more enticing food item.

He hasn’t quite developed the fine motor skills to work the fork and noodle with ease and becomes easily frustrated when prompted to do so.

We need to handle therapeutically; hand-over-hand at every bite!

Then, once the hand-over-hand becomes more tolerable, we should fade out our hand-over-hand, by first lightening the pressure of our hands on his.

Eventually, all he will need is a visual cue.

Then, all we will need to do is use our hands to model the fork-noodle grab with our own fork and noodles, until

eventually,

he does the fork-noodle grab automatically on his own

without physical and/visual cues.

However, out of all of the therapeutic interventions in his life to prioritize….

However, can’t my poor dude just not be intervened all the time…

Noodles on the table for now we’ll be.