About working with their hands
We have seen that by making the hand the primary target in our treatment and educational plan, the children will develop better hand function; using grasp, release and hold, they also learn fixation, mobility and balance. These abilities combined with midline orientation will aid their concentration and attention span, their focussing and eye following. All these skills combined with better sensory discrimination will aid the child's performance in the classroom. The abnormal motor patterns have also been replaced by more normal action patterns; in short, a result succinctly expressed by Professor Peto when he said: "by treating the hand, we get a lot for nothing".