Handwriting in Practice Program
$579.00
The Therapy at Home Handwriting in Practice Program has been designed to motivate and encourage sustained engagement with handwriting practice through fun and functional activities.
Through the use of The Play Way’s Handwriting Workbook, children will have the opportunity to develop skills in the foundational components of handwriting, such as letter forms, letters sizes, spaces between words and writing on the line. As such, this program aims to improve children’s writing speed, legibility and overall enjoyment for handwriting tasks.
Created for ages 7 – 16 years.
An Outcome Report and a block of Group Telehealth Sessions are included with this program.
- Description
- What's in the toolbox?
- What are the benefits?
- What are the goals?
- What skills will we build?
- Telehealth
- Outcome Report
The Therapy at Home Handwriting in Practice Program focuses on reducing some of the cognitive and language demands involved in handwriting tasks, so that children can focus on developing letter formation skills, writing speed and writing endurance.
This is the second program in our developmental range for handwriting skills so if you’re not at the point where you’re ready for functional writing of sentences, you might want to take a look at the precursor program:
About the Handwriting in Practice Program
The Play Way’s Handwriting Workbook provides a range of novel and functional handwriting exercises that allow children to write from memory or personal experience, or to copy if this eases the cognitive and language demands often involved in writing tasks.
In reducing the focus on aspects such as spelling, sentence structure and generating ideas, children can focus on the core components of handwriting, such as letter forms, letter sizes, spaces between words and writing on the line.
The workbook offers activities such as writing a list of jokes, writing a shopping list, copying song lyrics and more. The compendium, fully stocked with a range of writing tools, will provide further motivation for engaging in the workbook activities.
Within the activities, there are options to cater for a range of cognitive and language levels so that children can extend themselves further if they would like to do so. For example, if the activity is to write a list of fun facts, children will have the option to copy these from a book or the Internet, write them from memory or make up their own and challenge family and friends to decide which is fact and which is fiction.
The program has been designed to be completed over a four-week period, with a range of weekly activities and reflection tasks. There is also a weekly task for gathering data about writing speed and legibility so that improvement can be tracked over time.
PLEASE NOTE: The essential components of the toolbox generally don’t change over time unless we are making improvements to the overall program. The specific tools included may differ at times in terms of brand, colour, and other cosmetic differences due to sourcing factors out of our control. This will not affect the therapeutic benefits of the program as intended for the participant. We recommend you only order one program per child to ensure the appropriate use of funds. We cannot tailor toolboxes or programs to suit specific requests at this time. If you order a program for multiple children they will receive the same program and toolbox. All shop listing images are representative of the program theme and not necessarily literal representations of what’s in the toolbox.
What's in the toolbox?
The Therapy at Home Handwriting in Practice Program comes with a toolbox of resources delivered to your door that aligns with the skill building modules in the online program. This toolbox provides a practical and playful element that your child can engage with as they follow along with the videos.
The toolbox includes*:
✓ The Play Projects’ compendium complete with all of the tools and resources required to deliver the program. Inside the compendium, you will find:
- The Play Way’s Handwriting Workbook containing four weeks of activities for developing handwriting skills
- Mechanical pencil, pencils and pens for variety in writing tools and to encourage experimentation to find the most suitable writing tool
- Invisible spy pen and blanks cards for writing secret messages
- Sharpener and eraser to assist with the writing process
- Star and emoji stickers for encourage reflection in the journal
- Notepad and envelopes for letting writing
- Magnetic shopping list for preparing weekly shopping list
- Recipe notepad for recording special recipes
- Sky grass dirt paper for improving letter formation
✓ Magnetic weekly planner and whiteboard marker for creating a daily schedule for regular practice
✓ The Fuzzies a fun and interactive family-friendly game for developing fine motor skills
✓ Instructional card to support parents in understanding and delivering the requirements of the program
* The essential components of the toolbox generally don’t change over time unless we are making improvements to the overall program. The specific tools included may differ at times in terms of brand, colour, and other cosmetic differences due to sourcing factors out of our control. This will not affect the therapeutic benefits of the program as intended for the participant.
What are the benefits?
The Therapy at Home Handwriting in Practice Program aims to deliver the following benefits:
✓ Practical strategies and tools for tracking and celebrating handwriting improvement over time
✓ Comprehensive and well-structured writing workbook with fun and functional handwriting tasks for children to engage with
✓ Scaffolded activities that allow children to work across a range of handwriting, cognitive and language levels and extend themselves if they choose to do so
✓ Fully stocked compendium complete with all of the tools and resources to motivate engagement with the program
What are the goals?
The Therapy at Home Handwriting Foundations Program aims to achieve the following goals:
✓ Develop and refine letter formation skills, including letter size, spacing and writing on the line
✓ Improve writing endurance and reduce hand fatigue when writing
✓ Increase writing speed, as measured by number of words written per minute
✓ Increase intrinsic motivation to engage in functional handwriting tasks (for example, writing out a shopping list or recipe)
✓ Develop skills for goal-setting
✓ Develop skills for processing and executing instructions to complete a task
✓ Improve self-confidence with writing tasks
✓ Increase enjoyment from handwriting
View the Therapy at Home NDIS Goals Guide to see where your child’s NDIS goals align with our range of Therapy at Home programs.
What skills will we build?
The Therapy at Home Handwriting in Practice Program focuses on skill development in the following areas:
✓ Handwriting skills particularly in the areas of neatness, legibility and speed
✓ Goal-setting skills through setting achievable and measurable goals
✓ Understanding intrinsic motivators as children use rewards to motivate repeated practice and exploring a range of handwriting activities
✓ Fine motor skills through holding pencils to stimulate and strengthen the muscles in the fingers and hands
✓ Building daily routines through development of a regular, daily practice schedule for the four week duration of the program
✓ Language and literacy skills as children utilise and develop their reading skills, such as including visual tracking and expand their vocabulary, understanding of sentence structure and comprehension
✓ Following instructions as children engage with the requirements of the activities in the workbook
✓ Daily living skills through functional writing tasks such a preparing a shopping list and writing out a recipe
✓ Social and interpersonal skills as children connect with others through letter writing
✓ Reflection skills as children engage with the weekly reflection tasks to understand their successes and challenges and plan the week ahead
✓ Self-confidence and enjoyment from handwriting as children watch their skills develop over time
Telehealth
This program includes a block of Group Telehealth Sessions to support you in successfully implementing this program. To read more about the Group Telehealth inclusion please visit our FAQs.
Outcome Report
This program comes with an outcome report for NDIS review purposes.
Parents/guardians must submit online questionnaires measuring the child’s progress before and after the program as a requirement for obtaining the outcome report.
Find out more about how to use your NDIS funds for this program HERE
Therapy at Home provides the option for an outcome report to be included with all Programs. These reports are a summary of the specific program outcomes measured as a result of participating in a specific Therapy at Home Program. This is not a report for decision-making at the full plan level. This is not a report for an end-of-plan review from which a planner can use to make decisions about future funds at a whole plan level.
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