Handwriting Problems

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...

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...

Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients'. This is a very serious state of affairs when surgeons are saying that their students have lost the dexterity for stitching or sewing...

With so many children having problems with handwriting, and with over 20 different styles of handwriting in our schools, do you think we need a National Handwriting Scheme? I am...