Description
Handwriting is an essential skill for kids to master. Knowing how to optimize learning and remediate common errors are important skill sets for any therapist treating school-aged children. Being truly effective requires you to communicate effectively as a member of a team. This Handwriting Success Handout Packet provides you with ready-to-go informational handouts for educators and parents.
Make your life easier with this set of 15 attractive, easy-to-follow handouts. Written by CathyAnn Collyer, OTR, LMT, they work equally well as individual handouts or as part of a larger informational packet in school or at home. They immediately increase your professional visibility and demonstrate your clinical expertise. You can find
The 17 page PDF packet will be available electronically immediately following payment.
This packet is part of the make your own discounted bundle with resources written by CathyAnn Collyer OTR, LMT.
Here are some of the ways to use this Handwriting Success Handout Packet in your clinical practice:
- Laminate a handout for posting in the classroom or in a treatment area.
- Assemble a take-home packet after parent meetings.
- Optimize treatment carryover by underlining important issues to address and specific techniques to try in the classroom or at home.
- Professional handouts demonstrate your knowledge base in a team meeting, facility in-service, or PTA presentation.
- Add these handouts to your department orientation for student therapists, new grads, or providers transitioning from another specialty into pediatrics.
Table of Contents for the Handwriting Success Handwriting Packet:
- Why Is Handwriting Still Such an Important Skill?
- Which Pencil is Right to Teach Handwriting?
- Controlling Pencil Pressure
- Should a Child Use a Pencil Grip?
- Teaching Postural Control for Handwriting
- Are Tabletop Easels/ Slant Boards, the Right Choice?
- Avoid Letter and Number Reversals (or fix them quickly!)
- 5 Strategies to Build Baseline Awareness
- Fixing Letters with Tails and Fixing Tall Letters
- Should You Teach a Struggling Writer a Different Letter/Number Style?
- How to Teach Correct Spacing
- Adapting Worksheets for Struggling Writers
- The Keys to Effective Erasing
- 4 Handwriting Strategies for Lefties
- How to Motivate a Child to Practice Handwriting
The 15-page packet will be available immediately following payment.
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