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# 330 Discover Handwriting Success

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Course Summary:

A multi-sensory and perceptual motor treatment approach to screening, evaluating and treating handwriting deficits. Toni M. Schulken, MS, OTR/L, believes strongly in a holistic approach to treatment of the child with handwriting deficits. There are many skills that lead up to being able to correctly hold a pencil and form the letters of the alphabet. A child must have functional skills in the areas of posture, upper body strength, trunk stability and rotation, visual motor control, visual perception, praxis, fluency, fine motor and in-hand manipulation skills, and oculomotor skills. Practitioners will learn how to screen, assess and treat these underlying components of handwriting. In addition, participants will learn multi-sensory strategies and accommodations to utilize when teaching handwriting, regardless of the program being implemented (i.e., Handwriting Without Tears, DNealian, First Strokes, Zaner Blozer). Be prepared to take in a lot of information, have a lot of fun, and learn a lot of treatment ideas to add to your bag of tricks. Participants will leave with reproducible, skill-specific home program sheets, screening forms (with therapist guide) and teacher referral checklists to use in their daily practice.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
1. Screen for and evaluate the underlying components related to handwriting success.
2. Identify what aspects of handwriting are affected by the specific skill areas.
3. Implement a variety of therapeutic activities to address the child's deficit areas. 4. Teach a child to write with proper letter formation, spacing, size, alignment and fluidity.
5. Address concerns regarding a child having difficulty thinking of what to write.
6. Make classroom recommendations for children with handwriting difficulties.

Audience

Pediatric occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, speech-language pathologists, special education instructors and other related professionals.

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