Ten Quick Tips for Improving Handwriting
READ MOREThe Importance of Good Sitting Posture for Handwriting
Maintaining good posture ensures your body is in good alignment and that stress on your muscles, joints and ligaments are distributed evenly across your body. Poor posture can cause increased strain on your body, leading to fatigue, tight or achy muscles in your neck, back, arms and legs, joint stiffness and pain.
Sitting with good posture during handwriting tasks, is therefore very important and while most issues with handwriting are often associated with poor fine motor skills or difficulties with pencil grip, the impact of good sitting posture and core strength are often overlooked.
READ MOREExtremely Useful iPad Apps for Letter Formation
Is your child beginning to learn how to draw their prewriting shapes or developing their letter and number formations? If so, there are some great iPad apps that support with these skills. Although, paper is preferred, it can be helpful to have other methods to support your child to develop their prewriting or handwriting skills. […]
READ MOREHelping your left handed child written by a left handed OT
August 13th is international left handers day, the one day of the year that all left handers can celebrate. What do we know about being left handed? Left handers account for about 10% of the population. There are more boys than girls who are left handers. Left handedness is genetic. It is still challenging to […]
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