Online Continuing Education Courses

Prewriting and Handwriting Skills

• Describe the role of the OT in evaluation of and intervention for children with handwriting difficulties
• List and outline 5 factors that contribute to handwriting readiness for young children
• Describe 3 methods for evaluating handwriting and functional written communication
• Examine and describe 3 ways that performance skills, client factors, performance patterns, and context influence the student's participation in the writing process
• Recite 5 ways that handwriting fits into the educational writing process
• Rationalize how remedial and compensatory strategies improve a student's written communication
• Explore 5 ways that OT practitioners use pediatric OT models of practice and handwriting intervention programs to improve children's handwriting
• Examine 3 handwriting interventions and programs that are supported with research evidence