AIM: To find the effectiveness of contemporary task-oriented approach-based occupational therapy intervention for children with handwriting and fine motor difficulties. Objectives: To screen handwriting and fine motor difficulties by using evaluation tools of children with handwriting (ETCH-M). To assess handwriting and fine motor difficulties by using fine motor skills checklist (6-12). To determine the effectiveness of contemporary task-oriented approach-based occupational therapy intervention for children with handwriting and fine motor difficulties. To evaluate the alphabet writing, numeral writing, near point copy, far point copy, dictation, sentence composition by using the Evaluation tool of children with hand writing (ETCH).
METHODOLOGY : Totally 74 subjects (37 in experimental group and 37 in control group) of age group of 6 to 12 years participated in current study.
Results: Significant reducing in handwriting and fine motor difficulties, with regard to contemporary task-oriented approach-based occupational therapy intervention for children with handwriting and fine motor difficulties.