Day 1: Fine Motor / Writing Success for Children with Autism and Special Needs

3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
1.5 Contact Hours or 0.15 AOTA CEUs

Prerequisite - Participants must have attended the earlier Day 1 session (Fine Motor Gymnastics to Multi-Sensory Print)

3:15	Handwriting curriculum and adapting paper for visual motor delays (Workshop Begins Promptly at 3:15, CEUs will be amended for late arrivals)
	Hyperlexia - challenges and strategies for handwriting
	Attention span and motivation
	Ideas for students with autism or special education needs
	Adapting curriculum - Integrating OT Objectives into the regular ed IEP
	Fine Motor in a Box - problem solve consultative ideas for a preschool/sp ed classroom
	Adapting Curriculum - CD has adaptive curriculum to print and put in binder so that students can participate in handwriting in the classroom.
	Setting up fine motor and writing labs in a classroom with a schedule card
	Retrain the brain/lightbox activities
	Trace, trace copy - sequencing of letters through practice: Facilitated language turns into facilitated handwriting Home activities
	How to make outline font - to create handwriting activities, books
	CD: Outlined letters for classroom units
	Group Discussion: Treatment/Lesson plan a lab set up for letter “d”, which will incorporate multi-sensory writing Treatment/lesson plan a lab for a theme for writing/fine motor
	Prize giveaway
5:00	Workshop Ends