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Why Handwriting Helpers?
Is your child’s handwriting hard to read?
Does your child make their letters all the same size or reverse letters?
Does your child make their letters all the same size or reverse letters?
Handwriting Helpers tutoring is just what your child needs to boost their handwriting skills and build the confidence they need to be a better student.
Does your child make their letters all the same size or reverse letters?
Does your child make their letters all the same size or reverse letters?
Does your child make their letters all the same size or reverse letters?
At Handwriting Helpers, we teach proper letter formation and spacing between words.
At HH, we teach letters in groups with all the same starting formation which helps prevent reversals.
See the Difference Handwriting, Cursive, or Keyboarding Tutoring Makes!
Does your child make their letters all the same size or reverse letters?
See the Difference Handwriting, Cursive, or Keyboarding Tutoring Makes!
At Handwriting Helpers, we make learning print, cursive and keyboarding fun! The students learn better and faster through movement and games!
Services
Screenings and Evaluations
Handwriting, Cursive, and Keyboarding Tutoring
Handwriting, Cursive, and Keyboarding Tutoring
Handwriting Screening
Handwriting Evaluation
Occupational Therapy Evaluation
Dyslexia/Reversal Evaluation
Handwriting, Cursive, and Keyboarding Tutoring
Handwriting, Cursive, and Keyboarding Tutoring
Handwriting, Cursive, and Keyboarding Tutoring
Individual Handwriting Tutoring
Handwriting Groups
Cursive
Keyboarding
Occupational Therapy Services
Handwriting, Cursive, and Keyboarding Tutoring
Occupational Therapy Services
Individual O.T. Sessions
Services include:
fine motor, gross motor, visual motor, visual perceptual skills, sensory processing, and self help skills training such as shoe tying and feeding for infants.
components of Handwriting
Fine Motor Skills
Using the proper pencil grasp helps promote letter closure and making letters sitting on the line. Developing good fine motor skills is the foundation for good handwriting and endurance needed for longer writing assignments.
Visual Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills
Visual motor skills include: drawing shapes, copying letters, words, and sentences. Visual perceptual skills start with sorting, matching and then progress to visual memory, figure ground and recognizing reversals.
Oculomotor Skills
Oculomotor skills are needed for visual scanning and tracking when reading and writing. There are 6 muscles that surround the eye that work together to control eye movement.
Posture and Core Strength
Good posture and core strength is needed for holding the body in an upright position without needing one's arms to prop or hold themselves up instead of using their hands to stabilize the paper.
Sensory Processing and Attention
Attention and Sensory processing skills are the ability to filter out unimportant information (eg. background noise,lights, pencil pressure) and plan multi-step tasks such as letter formation and creative writing .
Social -Emotional Impact
Writing slower than his/her peers and lagging behind in writing may have negative social-emotional impacts on a student.
Primitive Reflexes
Many children that continue to display primitive reflexes may have an awkward pencil grasp, poor posture, difficultly concentrating, slow at copying from the board, poor coordination and poor emotional regulation.
About Me
Rhonda Schaefer, OTR/L
My name is Rhonda Schaefer. I have been working as an Occupational Therapist for over 20 years in the school setting (preK- 12th grade) and in early intervention (0-3 year olds). I’ve worked with hundreds of kids with a variety of special needs. I am registered and licensed in the state Florida. I became an OT because I wanted to he
My name is Rhonda Schaefer. I have been working as an Occupational Therapist for over 20 years in the school setting (preK- 12th grade) and in early intervention (0-3 year olds). I’ve worked with hundreds of kids with a variety of special needs. I am registered and licensed in the state Florida. I became an OT because I wanted to help kids and I started this business to show kids how to be more successful students.
I have been to numerous handwriting conferences over the years: “The Write Stuff”, “1 hour to Legibility”, and “Handwriting Without Tears”, just to name a few. I ‘ve taken what I have learned from these trainings and discovered what works best and apply it to each child’s needs. Some children need lessons to learn the correct formation of letters. Some kids only need specialized notebook paper, different types of pencils, or a pencil gripper to help them write neater. Others need to develop their fine motor skills such as improving dexterity, developing palmar arches and finger muscles. Some children have visual perceptual deficits that may be impacting their legibility. While other children may not be able to sit up in their chair or have to hold their head up with their hands. This is where I can help. I have the knowledge to see what a child’s teacher may not see. My goal is to help children not think of handwriting as “torture”. I want to make them successful at a young age because handwriting is a life long skill. I teach kiddos the right way to hold their pencil, form letters and develop fine motor skills needed for legible handwriting using fun multi-sensory activities. While some students will learn handwriting techniques and strategies quickly in a group, some students will need individualized attention to address more areas that underlie their handwriting difficulties. I offer both handwriting groups and individualized occupational therapy sessions. Some students may also benefit from learning how to type as this is a growing need in our every day culture and a classroom necessity.