Commonalty available pencils are improperly designed for normal children which not only retard writing speed but also deform finger's and hand's fine motor muscles and cause pain at the joints. Some ergo-devices as attachment are available in the market, through they help a good number of children but children have a lot of diversity and uniformity is not to be enforced.
For children with special needs, not only children are needed to improve their tripod grip but also customize the thickness of pencil to relax and shape fine motor motor muscles separately for each child. Therefore, improvisation and adaptations are must which could be done by the special educator as well as care-givers with readily available material.
An experiment was done in which a wedge-shaped eraser piece was adjusted for the thickness and position of the cylindrical tube thus formed so that both grip improves with relaxed muscle getting exercise while the child wrote Hindi alphabet successively.
The protocol for improving writing and acquiring adequate fine motor movements is to be followed.
The pencil, thus can be made a therapeutic writing utensil to which mitigate Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs) and Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) of fingers and hands.
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