Valentine's Day: Before and After

 

Tiffany's Tips: Functional Pencil Grip

Does your child hold their pencil when weird pencil grip? They may benefit from using the tripod trainer grip. To...

• Reduce hand fatigue

• Help give more control 

• Encourage tripod pencil grip, the most functional grip for legible handwriting. 

When using pencil grips, have your child start coloring by connecting the dots or mazes activities to get them used to using the grip before handwriting. These will improve your child’s visual motor skills and fine motor skills. When utilizing the pencil grip, you will see your child developing more control of their writing utensil.

 

Tiffany's Tips: My favorite Virtual activity

This is my new favorite online story starter activity. My students love it and I enjoy the fun creative stories they come up with. 

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/adventure-writing-prompts/index.html

My Teachers Pay Teachers store

 For all visual perceptual/fine motor/ visual motor things!!! 

Please check it out and follow me:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Writenow-Ot

Always a Place for FUN in Therapy

 

SUMMER is HERE!!!

Summer is HERE!!!! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!

 

Benefits of floor writing

Writing while lying on the floor has many benefits to help improve your child’s handwriting.  This position improves shoulder stability, wrist extension, and forearm placement. Additionally, it may improve your child’s ability to focus by changing their positions.

V a l e n t i n e Day & word spacing

Pipe cleaners, tiny pom-poms, and finger spacers were all used to 

aid my students to correctly spacing their words.

 

Pencil Grip Training

This past summer has provided a perfect opportunity to teach pencil grip now that therapy sessions are back in person. During our session, my student worked on fine motor strengthening activities, placing pegs in modeling clay. Then he completed visual motor activities (connect the dot and mazes) using a silicone pencil grip and Handiwriter handwriting tool. Finally, practice without the grip. 
#Ready For School

Summer Virtual Summer Classes

It’s time for students to pick up  a pencil and paper and get ready to enter the school. This summer is the time to help your child refresh or develop the handwriting skills they will need prior to re-entering the school building this Fall. In class, your child will engage in fun hands-on multi-sensory motor activities to learn the fundamentals of …

• writing mechanics (capitalization and punctuation) 

• letter formation, size, and alignment

• word spacing

• pencil grip

From Shaving cream to play-doh, your child will experience the joy of writing. This camp will emphasize letter formation using the Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum for PRINTING or Loops and Other Groups to learn CURSIVE. Our goal is to equip children with the necessary tools to write with CONFIDENCE and EASE.    

DATES: Tuesdays and Thursdays (July 6th to July 29th)

TIMES: 4:30pm to 5:30pm CST

PLACE: Zoom (virtual summer classes are designed to meet your child's needs from the safety and comfort of your home)

Email to register and secure your child’s spot.

For more information contact us at 

writenow.reid@gmail.com 

Tiffany's Tip: Wrist Positioning

Holding your wrist in a slightly extended position pulls the tendons that connect the wrist to the fingers. Therefore, an extended wrist position 

can also move the fingers easier, resulting in better finger control for handwriting.

Try these tips to improve wrist extension when holding a writing utensil…

⇨ rest hand on paper while writing on an easel
⇨ tape mazes and connect the dots activities to refrigerator door to complete
⇨ complete color pattern sheets while lying on the floor prop up on forearms
⇨ wheelbarrow walking, donkey kicks, crab walking
⇨ practicing writing patterns on a vertical surface

⇨ completing written task on a slant board  

More Remote Success

The above handwriting samples show an 8-year old boy's progress during remote therapy.