Grasping skills
Grasping Skills
Manipulation Skills
Prewriting skills
Mature Grasping Patterns (examples)
100

Radial Digital Grasp

8 months

100

Rake grasp

6 months

100

finger to palm translation

12-15 months

100

Palmar supinate grasp

1-1 1/2 years

100

Hook Grasp

Used to carry purse or briefcase

200
Palmar grasp

5 months

200

inferior scissors grasp

7 months

200

complex rotation

6-7 years

200

digital pronate grasp

2-3 years

200

Power Grasp

Used to hold tool in hand

300

pincer grasp

10 months

300

Neat (fine) Pincer grasp

10 months

300

shift

3-5 years

300

dynamic tripod grasp

 4 1/2-6 years

300

Lateral Pinch

Holding a key

400
Scissors grasp

8 months

400

inferior pincer grasp

9 months

400

palm to finger translation

2-2 1/2 years

400

static tripod grasp

3 1/2- 4 years

400

Pincer Grasp

holding a pencil

500

crude (ulnar) palmar grasp

4 months

500

Radial palmar grasp

6 months

500

simple rotation

2-2 1/2 years

500

Spherical Grasp

Hold baseball
500
Disk Grasp

holding something with tips of fingers, holding a jar or cd disk