Specialist Handwriting Services
Therapy in Praxis offers individual and group services for the development of pre-writing and writing skills.
The following programs are part of the Handwriting Without Tears© curriculum:
Fine Motor Is Fun!!!
This group is for children who require direct instruction or simply a little extra practice with fine-motor tasks. Children will participate in multi- sensory activities such as music, arts and crafts, games, exercise and tactile play, to develop the fine-motor skills necessary for future success.
Get Ready To Write!!!
This programme is for individuals or small groups of pre-school children. It uses the
Handwriting Without Tears© ‘Get Set For School’ curriculum to improve upper-extremity strength and bilateral
skills, crayon grasp, shape and letter identification and formation as well as scissor skills through
multi-sensory activities. Children will develop grasp, hand dexterity and ocular motor control - all necessary for a successful transition into school.
Write Now!!!
This group or individual program is designed for children, pre-school or older, who require additional instruction. Write Now introduces children to correct formation, sizing, and line regard of capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers, through exciting multi-sensory activities.
This program uses the Handwriting Without Tears© ‘Letters & Numbers For Me’ curriculum.
Wonderful Writers!!!
Children who have mastered correct formation of capital and lowercase letters will benefit from Wonderful Writers as they are instructed on creating neat and legible sentences and paragraphs with appropriate line usage, sizing and spacing. Children incorporate strengthening activities to improve seated posture and endurance needed for primary-secondary and higher level writing and copying tasks.
Cursive Writing!!!
Children ready to begin the art of cursive writing will enjoy learning how to form the loops, swoops and interesting letters in the cursive alphabet, through movement games and tactile play such as shaving cream writing.
Children enjoy learning how to connect their letters and to create their very own signature.
The Print Tool Assessment
Created by the founders of Handwriting Without Tears©, this is a formal evaluation of eight components of handwriting (memory, orientation, placement, size, start, sequence, control, spacing) to target specific and identify areas that require remediation. The Print Tool is not a standardised assessment.
