Dietrich, Bonnie and Hennessy, Kimiko and Kasmajian, Christine and Lopez, Jesus (2020) Effective handwriting curriculum for “write-on”: a summer camp for school-aged children. Masters thesis, Stanbridge University.
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Abstract
About 10 to 30 percent of children have difficulties with handwriting (Hoy, Egan, & Feder, 2011). There are many underlying factors that can affect a child's ability to write legibly. Often, when children experience difficulties with handwriting, they are referred to occupational therapy services. There are several effective interventions occupational therapists can utilize to work on handwriting skills, some of which include visual motor and perceptual skills, fine motor skills, and postural movement strategies (Taras, Brennan, Gilbert, & Reed, 2011). However, there are children who slip through the cracks, which results in children who continue to struggle throughout their academics. The purpose of this project was to develop a handwriting curriculum for a 5-day summer clinic focused on handwriting readiness. We partnered with Center for Developing Kids (CDK), an outpatient pediatrics clinic in Pasadena, to develop and implement this project. The main goal of this project was to revamp CDK’s 15-year-old summer-clinic handwriting program, Write-On, to ensure it aligned with the most recent evidence supporting handwriting readiness. We conducted a needs assessment with the owners of CDK and then compiled virtual files of handwriting and fine motor worksheets, arts and crafts projects, and sensorimotor activities, in order to create a 5-day schedule for both the pre-writing (4-5 years old) and beginning writing (6-8 years old) groups. The licensed occupational therapists at CDK will implement the 5-day handwriting readiness program. A questionnaire was sent to OTs at CDK, in order to receive professional feedback on the program. Feedback from the questionnaires indicated potential barriers for child participation in the summer program and suggestions for formatting adjustments to the schedule, all of which were taken into consideration and appropriate modifications were made. Further outcomes of this project would include expansion of it into an ongoing after-school program.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Depositing User: | Institutional Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2022 23:52 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2024 21:58 |
| URI: | http://repository.stanbridge.edu/id/eprint/61 |
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