There are two ways that you can use these videos:

1. Use the video as a movement demonstration. Watch the video and see how the person moves their hands to tie their shoelaces. Then practice tying your shoelaces, copying the actions in the video. Do it again, watch and copy as often as you need.
2. Imagine yourself doing the action whilst watching it. Imagine that you are the person in the video. As you watch the video, try to imagine the feeling of moving your hands to tie your shoelaces. Then practice tying your shoelaces, copying the actions in the video. Do it again, watch while imagining the feeling, and copy as often as you need.

Top tips for tying shoelaces

As well as watching the videos, follow our top tips for tying shoelaces:

• Ask an adult to tie two short differently coloured laces together to make it easier to follow the moves
• Sit down to tie your laces if you find balance tricky
• For the first knot, tuck the lace under twice for a more secure hold
• Try our other shoelace tying video to see a different technique or our Velcro shoe video for Velcro shoes

Note: These movement demonstration videos have been designed to help children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD; dyspraxia) learn how to tie shoelaces successfully. The videos show a movement demonstration for shoelace tying, performed by a typically developing child model and recorded from a first-person viewpoint. A qualified occupational therapist instructed the child model how to perform the movement demonstration to ensure that an appropriate technique was demonstrated. The videos are free for use by dyspraxic people, parents, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, teachers, or anybody else who would find them useful for supporting the learning of shoelace tying in children with dyspraxia/DCD. ShoelaceTying Dyspraxia MovementSkills.

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