“…Several empirical studies highlight the intriguing role that fine motor skills (FMS) play not just in cognitive and mathematical development (Grissmer, Grimm, Aiyer, Murrah, & Steele, 2010;Luo, Jose, Huntsinger, & Pigott, 2007;Pagani, Fitzpatrick, Archambault, & Janosz, 2010) are not simply accounted for by maturation. The need to account for maturation is further stressed by neurological theories, whereby certain neural regions may be implicated in both FMS and reading development (James & Gauthier, 2006).…”