Description
Preparing children for handwriting instruction is an important part of the preschool years. That doesn’t mean it is easy to do! When a child needs extra help, the facility’s administration or their family turns to the child’s treatment team for answers. New team members often need more training from senior therapists to address problems with prewriting and beginning handwriting. All of this takes precious time away from direct treatment. So does e-mailing online information or writing a detailed note in a communication book.
Make life easier with this set of 15 colorful, easy-to-follow handout sheets. Written by CathyAnn Collyer, OTR, LMT, the Prewriting Success Handout PDF Packet works equally well as individual handouts or as part of a larger informational packet. Increase your professional visibility and demonstrate your clinical expertise with a comprehensive assortment of attractive handouts that offer strategies your team can put into use immediately!
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 Prewriting Success Handout Pack in your clinical practice:
- Start the prewriting “conversation” with parents and teachers.
- Laminate a handout for posting in the classroom or treatment area.
- Assemble a take-home packet after parent meetings.
- Optimize treatment carryover by underlining important issues to address and techniques to try in the classroom or at home.
- Professional handouts demonstrate your prewriting expertise in a team meeting, facility in-service, or PTA presentation.
- Add them to your department orientation for student therapists, new grads, or providers transitioning from another specialty into pediatrics.
Table of Contents for the Prewriting Success Handout Pack:
- Where is Thumbkin?
- Teaching Postural Control of Handwriting
- Identifying Hand dominance in Preschool
- What is a “Helper Hand”?
- Teaching Grasping Skills in Preschool
- The Spatial Skills Essential for Handwriting
- 4 Reasons to Teach Coloring and Drawing
- Selecting the Right Crayons for Prewriting
- Build Prewriting Skills with a Vertical Easel
- How Early Can You Start Teaching Handwriting?
- Teach Erasing Before Handwriting Instruction Begins
- Which Pencil is Right for Preschool?
- The 3 Stages of Learning How to Write
- When Should You Teach a Child to Write Their Name?
- 4 Handwriting Strategies for Lefties
The 15-page PDF packet will be available electronically immediately following payment.
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