- Handwriting Without Tears

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Was it you who was looking into HANDWRITING WITHOUT TEARS last

Spring? Kendra's OT, who we love, is doing wonderful work with Kendra with

this approach. She is RE-teaching Kendra how to do the strokes in the

right order of strokes from top to bottom, or bottom to top as the case may

be and how to do them staying within the lines. This is hard because

Kendra learned to write several years ago. However, she is really

dysgraphic.

Of course, it seems harder to re-teach something and get rid of bad habits,

than to teach correctly from the beginning, but this is working

phenomenally well. This process is essentially re-teaching Kendra and I am

very impressed with the results. The OT comes up with great new ideas all

the time and attended a HANDWRITING WITHOUT TEARS workshop recently.

Some of the things she has used that have helped include:

raised line paper, writing with sponges on small blackboards that have

raised borders, using squares to write the letters within the confines of

the square, using glue outlines of pictures to raise the border (as Michele

and at least one other person says they have utilized also), and hand over

hand. She also is working on Kendra's pencil grip.

Have you seen this program utilized and are you pleased?

Mom to Kendra, and Camille