by PRP Group, on 07/18/2024
I own approximately 70 different pairs of adapted scissors. Why scissors? As an art therapist who spent 30 years helping special education students in Milwaukee Public Schools express themselves independently, I always found scissors to be the most challenging adapted tool to match to students. I could fashion a grip for a pencil using a milk carton or some newspaper and tape, but the way students hold and operate scissors is often unique to each of them.
I became passionate about finding the right cutting tool for every student, so my collection includes loop scissors that spring apart, tiny scissors for people with small hands, scissors with blunted tips and scissors that don’t even use the traditional opposing blade method of cutting but get pushed across the top of the paper like a computer mouse. I believed that I could find scissors that almost any child could use somewhere in my collection.
