Great app!

I love this app. I teach Special Education to very low functioning middle school students. I stumbled onto this app when doing some on line research for teaching ideas to use with my students. I did not have an iPad at the time, so just filed the info away for future use. I finally talked the principal into getting my class an iPad and this was one of the first apps I downloaded. I am very impressed with it. My students like the crab pinching game and the letter tracing game best. They are getting a real work out and I am seeing some improvement. I showed the occupational therapist the app and she was very impressed. She checked out the letter tracing and said it reinforces the correct way of writing the letters. Too many apps with letter tracing do not show students the correct order to form the letters. So that is a good feature. All-in-all, the app is very well done. It is simple to use and very professional. There is one thing to remember, though. Go to settings from the iPad home screen. Turn off the "multitasking gestures" setting when you use this app. It wont work properly otherwise. This app would be great for parents who want to work with a student who is having problems with fine motor skills or handwriting. It is not babyish like some of the apps that cover handwriting, so it is good for any age. I could see this as being good for people who are recovering from stroke or injury that affects fine motor skills. This would also be good in any grade level regular education classroom as individual work for students who are having problems with handwriting and fine motor skills. Often students dont quite make the cutoff for eligibility for special services, such as Occupational Therapy, but still need help. This is a very good use for this app, and could even be used in the documentation process to show that interventions have been tried in the regular ed class, prior to referral for special services. If you are a teacher or therapist using this app, you will like the upgrade that they just put on the app. Now there is an option for multi-student tracking. Get this app. It is one of the best Ive seen and well worth the small cost!

MommaTanya about Dexteria - Fine Motor Skills