Fall is here! When providing your child with developmentally appropriate activities, utilizing the natural materials around you is a great way to foster a love of nature and keep costs down. Fall leaves you find in your neighborhood are a great material with a variety of different uses. Here are some fun ideas for using...
What is Dysgraphia? I work with kids in the Mountain View and the Bay Area to help improve their handwriting skills. One of the most challenging groups of kids I treat are those with dysgraphia. Dysgraphia is a learning disorder where your child’s brain has difficulty with expressing ideas in written form. This could...
Being purely right handed is the “norm”. Being left handed is less the norm, but often comes with "laterality dominance". “Pure” ambidexterity is even less common. Either way you look at it, being left handed lends to certain challenges. Here are some tricks to help!
Many kids with a diagnosis of motor based dysgraphia struggle with the fine motor aspect of writing. Their hand hurts when they are writing or they may have an odd pencil grasp. Their fingers don’t have the fine muscle movements needed to form smooth fluid letters. This slows down the process of writing. Occupational Therapists...
What makes handwriting readable? When I was homeschooling my son, I remember noticing that at times, his handwriting was not very readable. There is a lot that goes into handwriting. It is not just simply a look at the letter and copy it skill. Children need to have cognitive, perceptual, motor, coordination, memory, and sensory...
Getting smart and quirky kids to write can be a challenge. First off, I want to say that I love working with these kids. They are a challenge but also such a pleasure. Gifted kids who have ADHD, autism, anxiety or other learning differences are often called Twice Exceptional (2e). I love this name! They...
I work with kids in the Mountain View and the Bay area to help improve their handwriting skills. One of the most challenging groups of kids I treat are those with dysgraphia. Dysgraphia is learning disorder where your child’s brain has difficulty with expressing ideas in written form. This could result in fine motor challenges,...
Dysgraphia is considered a specific learning disability and interestingly it is not really about handwriting. It’s a deficit the process of writing. It is not merely a poor end product or end result.
