writing name & understanding emotions

Danes therapist that he sees 3 hours twice a week has noticed that Dane can recognize emotions and facial expressions.  That is only when someone is really sad and crying.  Happy and laughing.  Angry and yelling.  Only when it is to the extreme emotion that Dane understands what the other is feeling.  She will be working with him more on this to make him understand emotions more clearly.  There is no in-between with emotions that Dane can relate to.  If I say to him with a stern voice, he cannot understand that I am getting upset.  If I turn that into yelling, he will understand that I am getting mad.  That goes for happy and not laughing and sad without crying.  He cannot read between the lines on how people feel.

Dane needs to work hard on his fine motor skills.  When the therapist worked with him on writing his name, the longer they worked at it the better he got.  After they switched around to play therapy and then back to writing his name it was back to where he started.  He has troubles doing a tripod grasp around a crayon.  His teachers would break his crayons in half to help teach him the proper way to write.  He also lacks control when coloring.  By now, he should be able to stay in the lines when coloring a picture.  He scribbles all over with no control.  Also, his darker and harder pressed scribbles are turning into light strokes that are barely visible.

Dane knows and can recognize the letters of the alphabet.  When he writes his name, it is not horizontal. The therapist hopes to have this corrected because he is now in Kindergarten.  The letters seem to be all over with no control.