Solving the Handwriting Puzzle: A Structured Handwriting Program That Focuses on Building the Student’s Skill and Confidence with Handwriting

Solving the Handwriting Puzzle: A Structured Handwriting Program That Focuses on Building the Student’s Skill and Confidence with Handwriting

Solving the Handwriting Puzzle program follows AOTA’s best practices and empowers students to evaluate their handwriting with the “I am the teacher” step. During the first half of this 2.5-hour course, participants learn cognitive engagement strategies to change negative motor patterns and create new functional motor patterns. This step-by-step approach provides clear expectations for students, so they can make the changes they need to improve their handwriting.

The second half of this course addresses common issues associated with handwriting, such as copying from the board, directionality, pressure, and hand dominance. In this section, the presenter explores common underlying deficits that affect these areas and provides treatment strategies for improvement.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify four ways to cognitively engage students in the handwriting process.
2. List five steps to improve handwriting quality.
3. Describe how to address handwriting pressure.
4. List at least two treatment strategies to address lack of hand dominance.

Course Information

• Target Audience: introductory- to intermediate-level OTs, COTAs, teachers, and parents
• Course Instructor: Karin H. Warner, MOT, OTR/L
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• CE Broker course code: 20-994546
• Learning Assessment: Objective post-test

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sensational Brain LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development (#8215). Course approval ID# 06546. This distance learning, independent format is offered at 0.25 CEUs, Introductory level, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

Karin Hessellund Warner, MOT OTR/L, has been in practice since 1996. During her well-rounded career, she worked in a variety of settings including public and charter schools, Rady’s Children’s Hospital, home health, and private practice. As a speaker and presenter, Karin traveled to over 15 states to instruct seminars on handwriting, visual skills, laterality, and hand development. In 2007, she spoke at the Occupational Therapy Association of California’s Spring Symposium, where she first presented the “Solving the Handwriting Puzzle” program. In 2021, she spoke at the Occupational Therapy Association of California’s Annual Conference on “Functional Vestibulo-Ocular Skills in the School Setting.”

Karin published an article in Behavioral Aspects of Visual Care, titled “Understanding Occupational Therapy’s Role in Sensory Integration: Identifying and Describing How Sensory Processing Disorders Affect Vision and Behavior.” Karin spoke at California’s Regional Vision Therapists Forum in 2000.

Disclosures

• Financial: Karin H. Warner receives a speaking fee from Sensational Brain LLC.
• Nonfinancial: No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

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