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Multi-Sensory Handwriting Workshop Agenda
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| 7:30 | Registration (MUFFINS OR BAGELS AND COFFEE/TEA)
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| 8:00 | Introduction and Fabulous Lab Demonstration! (Workshop Begins Promptly at 8:00, CEUs will be amended for late arrivals) |
| 8:15 | Learning to Write in School - too fast, too soon, too hard - problems with students who have poor fine and visual motor skills, dyslexia or dysgraphia |
| 8:45 | Empowering teachers to Integrate Handwriting Within the Classroom with NO TIME but still helping kids that struggle! A toolkit of FUN, high interest activities for large motor, medium motor, and small motor learning techniques to help students with fine motor and visual motor delays. Receive training handouts for YOU to teach staff ways to better integrate ANY handwriting program within the classroom, clinic or therapeutic setting. |
| 9:45 | BREAK |
| 10:00 | Motor Lab Overview |
| 10:05 | Overview of First Strokes Print Programs using lab demonstrations of cool, zany techniques. |
| 10:30 | Remedial Strategies for therapeutic intervention: RECEIVE: * Hand out for YOU to teach an inservice on Remedial Strategies and Errors within YOUR program. |
| 11:15 | First Strokes NEW Cursive Program overview (all inclusive - has remedial techniques integrated within program) |
| 11:30 | LUNCH - on your own |
| 12:30 | LAB DEMONSTRATION: Therapeutic "facilitated writing" using Exploding Playdough and Other Zany Writing Topics |
| 12:45 | GRASP LAB RECEIVE: PENCIL GYMNASTICS KIT for YOU to teach staff how to integrate fine motor skills and grasp development into the classroom, clinic or parent training. |
| 1:00 | GRASP DEVELOPMENT: INTEGRATION STRATEGIES FOR THE CLASSROOM Research Studies - Should we change funky grasps? CREATIVE Intervention Strategies that even seasoned therapists will love, Prevalence of Grasp Errors, Video |
| 1:45 | Break |
| 1:55 | Grasp Development Continued |
| 2:20 | WALK-AROUND MULTI-SENSORY WRITING AND GRASP LABS!! (50 lab stations!) Explore the COOLEST multi-sensory teaching strategies for grasp development and letter formation. |
| 2:55 | Lab Breakdown/Break |
| 3:00 | Assistive Technology versus Handwriting - an integrated approach for students with learning disabilities, dyslexia |
| 3:30 | Adapting curriculum for low cognitive students or autism - a creative way to make your own handwriting curriculum |
| 3:50 | Post evaluation, group questions, prize give-away, wrap up |
| 4:00 | End (We will end right at 4:00) |
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