Handwriting 7 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Compensatory Strategies: Keyboarding | A word processor is an accommodation or supplemental aid in the classroom for children with handwriting difficulties. |
| Compensatory Strategies: Keyboarding | Student can write out their “rough draft” and then type the final draft. |
| Compensatory Strategies: Keyboarding | Present word processor as early as possible in their educational career. |
| Compensatory Strategies: Keyboarding | It also requires timing, rhythm, bilateral coordination. |
| Compensatory Strategies: Computer keyboard Interventions | Correct positioning and optimum seating should be provided. Make sure screen/keyboard aren’t too high, keyboard is aligned at midline. |
| Compensatory Strategies: Computer keyboard Interventions | Written instructions on how to use programs should be placed near computer so staff can refer to it if necessary |
| Compensatory Strategies: Computer keyboard Interventions | Reduce eye strain periodically looking across the room; take breaks for stretching exercises. |
| Compensatory Strategies: Computer keyboard Interventions | Encourage student to use right hand or (R) side and left hand on (L) side of keyboard. Can use color-coded stickers on fingernails as visual reminders. |
| Compensatory Strategies: Computer keyboard Interventions | Use child-sized keyboard. Keys are smaller and closer together |
| Computer keyboard Interventions: One-handed keyboarding technique | A child with hemiplegia has difficulty w/isolated finger movements and should learn the one-handed typing method. |
| Computer keyboard Interventions: One-handed keyboarding technique | “Touch typing with One Hand”: program that uses FGHJ as home keys and has finger go out from center of keyboard. • Affected arm should be used to stabilize or support the upper trunk in the optimum position. |
| Computer keyboard Interventions: Computer Mouse | “Test of Mouse Proficiency (TOMP)”: computer program used to evaluate proficiency of computer mouse. Looks at pointing, dragging, clicking, and pursuit tracking with the mouse. |
| Computer keyboard Interventions: Left-handed writers | Find it difficult to see what they’ve written |
| Computer keyboard Interventions: Left-handed writers | Sitting posture is frequently twisted to accommodate angle of paper. |
| Computer keyboard Interventions: Left-handed writers | Tend to push pencil rather than pull it from left to write. |
| Left Handed Intervention | Group left-handed children together or at end of row to they don’t bang hands with right-handers. |
| Left Handed Intervention | Develop left-to-right directionality. Do exercises on blackboard to encourage full arm movements and discourage excessive loops/flourished while writing. |
| Left Handed Intervention | Teach vertical writing. Don’t insist on a (R) slant, encourage (L)-handed slant and paper at midline, angling paper in same direction as forearm. |
| Left Handed Intervention | Cross letter “t” from (R) to (L) so student is pulling the stroke toward the hand. |
| Service Options: Direct Services | Interventions can be done individually or in a group setting. |
| Service Options: Monitoring Services | Provided when therapist is able to create a program for student that the staff or family can follow. Ex: Handwriting Without Tears |
| Service Options: Consultation Services | Provided when the practitioner’s expertise is used to help other personnel achieve the child’s objectives. |
| Service Options: Consultation Services | Include adapting task materials or the environment, designing strategies to improve posture/positioning, and demonstrating how to handle a situation that requires ongoing contact with the teacher or caregiver. |
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