Proven, Practical Strategies for Teaching and Remediating Handwriting: Ideas that Work

(Preschool-Grade 6)

Presented by Beverly H. Moskowitz, DOT, MS OTR/L, FAOTA
Acclaimed Occupational Therapist and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants and Classroom Teachers Serving Preschool-Grade 6

Dramatically and quickly increase the legibility and readability of print
Dozens of time-efficient, evidenced-based strategies from the Size Matters Handwriting Approach for teaching and remediating handwriting you can use immediately
Observable and measurable handwriting goals that lead to easy and fast data collection and lesson plans
Demonstrations, models, make-and-take ideas, hands-on activities, and an extensive occupational therapy resource handbook filled with ideas, strategies and tools you can use to more effectively remediate handwriting

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Do you have students in your classrooms or on your caseloads that are struggling to print legibly? Do you value handwriting instruction but cannot figure out how to fit it into your already busy school day? Are you searching for the most effective and time-efficient way to teach and remediate handwriting? Would you like to utilize proven strategies to dramatically and quickly improve the readability of your students’ printing? Would you like to incorporate an approach to teaching handwriting that does not depend on the purchase of expensive, consumable materials? If you are searching for proven, practical strategies for remediating handwriting that are evidence-based, then this is a seminar you won’t want to miss.

In this outstanding seminar, Bev Moskowitz, acclaimed school-based occupational therapist, author and national presenter, will share the most effective ways to quickly and efficiently remediate student handwriting allowing students to achieve almost overnight legibility.

You’ll leave this seminar equipped with the most effective strategies and concepts for teaching and remediating your students’ handwriting and an extensive resource handbook to help you utilize these strategies in your school-based OT practice.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Achieve Dramatic and Immediate Results Teaching and Remediating Student Printing
Become skilled at promoting consistency in printing by switching your emphasis to letter size – the Size Matters Handwriting Approach is proving the most impactful in changing student printing
Embed the Most Effective Handwriting Strategies into Your School Curriculum
Learn multisensory, hands-on strategies that help teachers combine printing instruction with curricular content
Increase Classroom Carryover
Learn simple, effective techniques to reinforce legibility that can be incorporated into your daily lessons and require minimal prep
Incorporate the Most Up-To-Date and Measurable Handwriting Strategies into Your Response to Intervention Initiatives
Blend these evidence-based strategies and instruction into Tier One: school-wide, Tier Two: small group and Tier Three: individual intervention programs
Accelerate Student Buy-In and Carryover
Develop student-therapist-teacher partnerships by empowering everyone with knowledge of the concepts, strategies and how to monitor progress … Self-scoring is very empowering!
Timesaving, Budget-Friendly Tools to be More Effective and Efficient that Promote Function and Participation
The goal is readability … Learn how you can make affordable, reproducible or reusable materials that promote students to the ranks of legible printers in unprecedented times and have teachers actually saying, “I can do that!”
Collect, Record and Measure Quantitative Data Easily
Write measurable handwriting objectives … Learn how the Written Language Production Standards provide sequential, descriptive and realistic goals that support state standards and translate to quick lesson plans or therapy goals
Apply the Most Current Evidence-Based Research on Handwriting Remediation to Your School-Based OT Program
Learn the most critical applications of the latest research and evidence behind this concept-driven (versus workbook-driven) approach and why it is quickly becoming a national game-changer
Differentiate and Individualize Handwriting Instruction and Remediation in a Variety of Ways
Create collaborative OT/Teacher programs within the classroom, increase success in pullout RTI or IEP treatments, initiate class or school-wide handwriting clubs, expand handwriting skills during centers, promote follow-through in home programs with parents, and more
Receive an Extensive Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive resource handbook to support your use of using these strategies immediately … No additional costly materials or workbooks are required … Start making legible printers out of your students today!

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Understand eight key concepts that will make the most difference in remediating your students’ printing and how to use them in your classroom or OT practice
Describe critical implications for the most effective ways to teach and remediate handwriting drawn from the largest study ever done on handwriting
Utilize authentic and useful motivational methods that make handwriting practice fun and meaningful while building carryover of handwriting consistency in all curricular content every day
Acquire dozens of practical strategies to use in a variety of settings, including collaborative models, pullout interventions, content applications, center time activities, home programs, handwriting clubs, and in RTI programs
Implement screening and initial assessments that provide direction for lesson plans, goal writing, differentiated instruction, treatment planning, and criteria for evaluating progress
Use goal writing and progress monitoring templates that make data collection easy, fast and measurable
Identify realistic, affordable and content-based ideas that enable teachers and OTs to collaborate in bringing handwriting activities into everyday learning
Utilize empowering tools that promote self-esteem with your students by teaching them to self-critique and score their printing
Incorporate Written Language Production Standards, a companion to most state standards that provides grade-level standards and goals for acquiring competency in printing
Integrate innovative teaching and treatment strategies to promote handwriting awareness and success across all curricular content
Promote and quantify copying skills using chunking and simple rubrics
Create your own support materials to share with your students that heighten their multisensory learning of effective handwriting techniques
Identify accommodations and strategies to adapt SMHP for special need learners

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Almost twenty years ago I was deluged in my school-based OT practice with a surplus of kids struggling to print legibly. I tried every available program on the market and backed them up with an exhaustive list of core strengthening, in-hand manipulative, visual-perceptual, and developmentally-appropriate activities. Even after all these interventions, I discovered I could rarely graduate these students as neat printers.

This persistent lack of success prompted me to start experiment with variables that seemed more impactful. As it turned out, when I emphasized letter size, students caught on quickly. In fact, the special education students became the neatest printers in the school. At that point, I pushed in to regular education classrooms to see if the strategies translated. The change was dramatic. Teachers were ecstatic. “I’ll never teach another method again” was a frequent comment from those who tried this approach. Over the years, I continued the process of conceptualizing, formalizing and testing the first meta-analytic approach to teaching and remediating handwriting. This concept-driven approach empowers teachers and students with the knowledge to critique and score printing, and contains strategies that embed handwriting sensibility across the school curriculum, in all subjects. Equally compelling is that it requires no materials at all.

It has been my experience that there is no better way to insure carryover with students, follow-through with parents and collaboration between OTs and teachers. And now we have the research to prove it.

Join me and learn how you can bring fast, real and effective changes in handwriting to your school!

Sincerely,
Bev

P.S. Again, the focus of my seminar will not be on more materials you need to buy but on highly practical strategies you can use immediately.

Who Should Attend

Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants and Classroom Teachers Serving Preschool-Grade 6.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specially designed for this seminar that will enable you to implement the strategies presented. Your handbook includes:

Step-by-step directions for using the strategies presented in a variety of settings
Tips for easy data collection and progress monitoring systems
An illustrative description of the key concepts that you can share with teachers and administrators
Tables, charts and illustrations of the before and after samples from the research study – In terms of evidence, a picture is worth a thousand words
Reproducible graphics and directions for fun, make-it-yourself materials to use with your students
Rubrics, reproducible data collection forms, scheduling, goal writing tips, and more
Timesaving handwriting interventions to strengthen your expertise as a school-based OT or OT assistant

Meet and Share
This seminar provides a great opportunity for occupational therapists to meet and share ideas for improving student handwriting.

Consultation Available
Beverly Moskowitz will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own handwriting remediation program.

AOTA – CEUs:
BER is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Full attendance at this seminar qualifies for .5 AOTA CEUs. You will be required to sign a morning and afternoon attendance roster and complete a program evaluation. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. AOTA Educational level, Introductory, Category 2, Domain of OT.

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