The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Online ISSN: 2301-2218
European Publisher
Application of Chaining Therapy for Improving Fine Motoric Skills As Self Being Basic Skills in Children with Down Syndrome
Table 1: Fine motor intervention on children with down syndrome
| No | Activity | Aims | Description |
| 1 | Playing Ball | Increase stability and sensation | When playing football, children using body stability as a basis for moving his arms and hands. In addition, the various forms and types of balls to train children sensation when holding.This activity is to train subjects to perform a series of activities in the play the ball, such as throwing up, toward opponent and also catch the ball out of someone else. So that the subject can skillfully play the ball itself, as well as with others. |
| 2 | Pouring Material | Increase stability and establish being selves | This activity can work to train subjects related to daily activities at home. When the subject is able to perform this activity either by sitting or standing, the subject can serve themselves or others associated with the activity of eating or other activities that require the same skills. In addition, children also have to do with neatly with no debris scattered due to his inability to control the power and speed of his hands when the children pour the ingredients.When pouring the ingredients with a variety of severe, children learn to stabilize the body when sitting or standing when poured. Since it takes the body to control the stability of the raised arm to pour the different ingredients. |
| 3 | Sweep (floor / yard) | Increase stability, bilateral coordination and being self | This activity requires the body and legs which remain stable when the arm moves to the front and rear. Children can be said to be able to perform these activities when able to make a clean of dirt by sweeping using a broom stick or broom fibers. With subjects can perform these activities, both on the floor just swept open or under furniture in the house, the subject can be more independent and help routines at home everyday. |
| 4 | Bring Tray | Increase stability and establish being selves | This activity is also strongly associated with the day-to-day skills at home. If the subject can carry the load in his hand while walking and the burden does not fall in this activity is a tray with food and drink, then this activity can be said to be capable of doing. By exercising this activity, the subject is expected to be more independent and help routines at home everyday.When carrying a tray of food or drink, the child must keep his arm steady and solid when running. |
| 5 | String up | Developing Bilateral Coordination, Sensation and Dexterity | This activity gives children the opportunity to experiment with the dominant hand. Typically, the meronce dominant hand, while the other hand holds his logs. In addition, children learn to control the strength of the hand and fingers in this activity. This activity requires the skills to take control of small objects and hand-crafted to be, do not spoil it by pushing blocks or straws too strong at the base. If this activity can be controlled by, subjects are expected to do so with a variety of tools to measure yangberbeda |
| 6 | Playing Sticke | Developing Bilateral Coordination and Dexterity | Opening the sticker from the sticker sheet requires good coordination of both hands as well as the ability to more skilled (Dexterity). This activity is suitable for children aged 7 years and over, as if done at a younger age these activities can make children frustrated.Perfection in this activity is the child able to play off sticker sticker of various sizes and shapes, also stick to other objects with precise and beautiful. |
| 7 | Playing Plasticine | Developing Bilateral Coordination and Dexterity | With plasticine leveling by hand and also using circular pipes will help skills on the wrist. This activity can also stimulate sensory subjects, improve hand strength and fingers, as well as encourage creativity while playing.Children were able to play plasticine is when the child is able to squeeze plasticine, shaping, smoothing by hand or with tools. |
| 8 | Sensory playing | Stimulate sensory | By getting to know all kinds of materials with diverse textures and flavors, lots of stimulate sensory receptors in the hands and tongue.Children are able to distinguish different textures and flavors, and can tell which one is more preferred and why |
| 9 | Cutting with scissors | Developing Bilateral Coordination and Dexterity | This activity train many aspects such as body stability and shoulders to move accurately while scissoring. Besides censory that appear on joints and muscles, those activity can help to adapt while scissoring accurately. Control of thumb could move on joint’s clients to open up scissors while she or he moves hand. The stability of hands could open and close the scissors with thumb and index finger, while stability of hand giving control to whole of hand. The dominantly of hand while straighten the scissors with the paper to form the paper while scissoring, and the other hand adapt for the paper. This activity being succeed while the child can scissor any kind of form without spoil something, and scissoring all of form exactly. |
| 10 | Wearing shock | Developing Bilateral Coordination and Dexterity | This activity could toughen fingers and stability while wearing socks. |