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[senco-forum] Handwriting help

Lesley lesley.hodges at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 21:06:13 BST 2007

Article: [senco-forum] Handwriting help

We have a year 10 boy who had a serious road accident back in October, and
as a result spent a long time in hospital. 

He has recently returned to us for a couple of hours a day to begin the
begin the reintegration process. We all know that this is going to be a very
slow process for him and we are not trying to rush him into anything that he
isn't ready for.

However as part of his reintegration we are looking at putting together a
handwriting scheme for him. He will had a word processor to record any work
that he does and access to laptop computer where necessary. He isn't ready
for the typical handwriting schemes yet ... we tried these last week and
they knocked his confidence. 

I have started to use the Teodorescu scheme but I think he will whizz
through these at the rate of knots, I had thought of using dot to dots and
maze pictures but after searching the web for a couple of hours  today I
haven't found any that a 15 year old boy would be happy to do in a classroom
of mixed ages.

So I wondered if you clever people could recommend any thing that would help
with refining handwriting skills and rebuild his confidence in his abilities
at the same time. 

Many thanks in anticipation of your help.

Lesley.


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