ELIMINATE DYSGRAPHIA!
Multi-Sensory Cursive, Keyboarding and Quick Remedial Print for OLDER Students (2nd Grade through Teens)

8:00 AM - 2:30 PM
5.0 Contact Hours or 0.50 AOTA CEUs

 

 

7:30 Registration (MUFFINS OR BAGELS AND COFFEE/TEA)
8:00 Introduction
(Workshop Begins Promptly at 8:00, CEUs will be amended for late arrivals)
  Audience Handwriting Samples (print, cursive, worksheet, LD simulation)
  Fine Motor Skills in the Older Child
Research on grasp, therapeutic activities, and eye hand coordination activities
  Problems with Legibility in Schools
    Dysgraphia
    • What is dysgraphia?
    • What types of dysgraphia are there?
    • Is “dysgraphia” a descriptive diagnosis?
    • Why is “dysgraphia” a term that is overused?
    Dyslexia, Disorder of Written Expression, Gifted Children
    • How is handwriting affected?
    Vision Related Learning Differences
    Case samples of grade levels
  One Hour to Legibility in Print RECEIVE: * One Hour to Legibility Program ($35 value)
(CD includes assessment for older students)
  Handwriting Errors in Print due to “a need for speed”

 

 LAB: Assessment for 2nd graders and above
  Remedial Strategies for therapeutic intervention:
  • Notebook paper legibility and CR paper to teach sizing
  • Fill in the blank worksheet legibility
  • Math legibility - visual motor techniques
  Zany Writing LAB - Shaving Cream Monsters
Alien Eyeball Demonstration
 

First Strokes Cursive LAB:

  • Handwriting Errors
  • Grouping by First Stroke
  • Sizing,
  • Speed Cursive
  • Why do kids go back to printing?
  • Visual memory of cursive - quick techniques for the classroom.
 

First Strokes Keyboarding Program:

  • Handwriting vs. Keyboarding
  • Assistive Technology - when is it important. Receive assistive technology resource handout
  • Software versus Multi-sensory Keyboarding Instruction
  • Multi--sensory Keyboarding Instruction
    • On Keyboard Activities
    • Off Keyboard Activities
2:30 Workshop Ends

 
 
 

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