Handwriting Problems

Annual Dyslexia Dates to help raise understanding & awareness of dyslexia. Each year, organisations, charities, campaigners, and schools participate in various activities to raise awareness.   Events take place all over...

There are over 25 muscles in the hand and fingers, so you can see why it is essential to have strong muscles, leading to good handwriting and drawing. You will...

Should Children learn to Touch-Type? With the Easter holidays upon us, it would be a good time for children to touch type.  Two of my favourite programmes are KAZ –...

Fine Motor Control using Q-tips to paint This young lad shows how easy he finds doing things like painting this spiders web with 'Q-tips'.  That was not always the case,...

Annual Dyslexia Dates to help raise understanding & awareness of dyslexia. Each year, organisations, charities, campaigners, and schools participate in a wide range of activities to raise awareness.   Events take...

Should Schools Make Students Use Fountain Pens? Can Student's Hand-Writing get better by using Fountain Pens? Why do some schools still insist that students use fountain pens?  Because some tutors...

Can playing marbles, linking paper clips, ‘Painting by Number’, mazes, nuts & bolts, Lego  -  help people with their handwriting? I don't think hardly anyone would have thought that playing...

You couldn't get a better advert than this for Assistive Technology (AT) could you? It is often such a fight to get teachers to allow students to use the Assistive...

I have always believed that children learn better through play.  Get out there and let them play!! “Scientists have recently determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a...