Answer: B. “Michael still has a hard time with fine motor skills, even though we’ve been working on them for a long time. We might want to consider adapting those tasks for him, so he can be independent.”
Even after working on them, Michael still has difficulty with fine motor skills. Those tasks may need to be adapted for him to be independent. People with Down syndrome have impairments in delicate motor prehension patterns that impact their ability to manipulate small objects. Since this student is 16 years old and has not learned these tasks after years of therapy, it is likely that his fine motor skills are not adequate to perform these tasks without adaptations.
