Pathways Autism Center
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Occupational Therapy Services and
The Handwriting Tutor
The Handwriting Tutor
The Handwriting
Tutor
As an occupational therapist, I am trained to assess fine-motor skills, visual-motor skills, and visual-perceptual skills which are all essential requirements for handwriting and culprits for handwriting problems. In addition to assessing these skills, I'm trained to remediate delays in these areas. Due to this education and training, an occupational therapist is a natural fit for a great handwriting tutor. I prefer to use the Handwriting without Tears program because it is developmentally based. This means that the requirements of the curriculum take into account the natural motoric and cognitive development of a child at any given age. This helps significantly in preventing handwriting problems and/or remediating them.
The Tutoring Plan
The handwriting tutoring plan includes a thorough assessment, identification of problem areas, goals for remediation, individual instruction (tutoring), and home exercises. It includes the following:
Assessment
- The Print Tool™ assessment:This breaks down components of handwriting and identifies exactly where your child is having the most difficulty.
- Fine-motor skills will also be evaluated as part of the handwriting tutoring program.
- A written report including all findings and established goals is included.
- Selection and purchase of the correct Handwriting without Tears® workbook.
- Cost of Assessment: $75
Tutoring Sessions:
- Tutoring Sessions lasts for 30 minutes and are typically recommend 2 times per week.
- Tutoring session include a review of previous sessions work/homework to assess progress, individual instruction time with child, and explanation of recommended home activities.
- If significant motor delays are present, 45 minute sessions could be recommended.
- Cost of 30 minute session-$35, cost of 45 minute session-$50.
Occupational Therapy
Any person with ASD may have a variety or range of signs and symptoms. Some are unique to those on the spectrum, but some are not. Those signs and symptoms that are unique to those on the Autism Spectrum are addressed using the RDI ® Program and are considered the core deficits. There may be other problems that you or your loved one is facing including:
Any person with ASD may have a variety or range of signs and symptoms. Some are unique to those on the spectrum, but some are not. Those signs and symptoms that are unique to those on the Autism Spectrum are addressed using the RDI ® Program and are considered the core deficits. There may be other problems that you or your loved one is facing including:
- fine and gross motor delays
- coordination deficits
- hypersensitivities to sensory stimuli
- hyperactivity
- hypoactivity or lethargy
- visual-motor or visual-perceptual problems
- sensory integration disorders
- handwriting problems
