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 and uses the cutlery to cut their food. Then practice using cutlery to cut food, 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 and using cutlery to cut food. Then, practice using cutlery to cut food, copying the actions in the video. Do it again, watch while imagining the feeling, and copy as often as you need.

Top tips for using cutlery

As well as watching the videos, follow our top tips for using cutlery:

• Position your fingers on top and thumbs underneath the cutlery as shown in the video
• Ask an adult to put a mark on the cutlery to show where your pointing finger should go
• Use the fork to hold the food steady and move the knife backwards and forwards like a saw
• After putting in the fork, leave a space before cutting with the knife. This means the food is less likely to fall off the fork.

Note: These movement demonstration videos have been designed to help children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD; dyspraxia) learn how to use cutlery successfully. The videos show a movement demonstration for using cutlery, 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 cutlery skills in children with dyspraxia/DCD.

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