What to Expect
Write Sensations is conveniently located to serve the children in our community. We offer at home visits or at a community location. By working in natural learning environments, we ensure our strategies are meaningful and easy to integrate into daily routines.
Write Sensations is private pay only at this time. We currently accept cash, check, Venmo, or PayPal.
Evaluation
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Assesses underlying skills needed for successful handwriting including postural strength, upper body strength/stability, endurance, fine motor, visual perceptual, visual motor, dexterity, coordination, and sensory processing
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Prewriting skills and shapes
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Letter formation including memory, starting point, sequence of strokes, and size
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Sentence writing ability including fluency, speed, legibility, spacing, sizing, and baseline orientation
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Determine child's strengths, targeted interventions, need for adaptive writing tools/techniques
Sessions and small groups
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Play-based gross motor activities, games, and exercises to lay crucial foundational skills including postural control, shoulder/arm strength, coordination, midline crossing, body awareness, and endurance
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Play-based fine motor activities to increase wrist and hand strength/stability, finger strength and dexterity, finger isolation and coordination, and pencil grip and control
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Multi-sensory activities to learning shapes and letter formations
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Paper and pencil tasks to generalize all the skills into functional written communication!
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At-home activities to reinforce skills at home
Self-Regulation and Mindfulness
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Children will explore calming and organizing sensory activities
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Participate in expressive art and drawing to encourage self-awareness and emotional balance
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Guided handwriting tasks, sensory-based writing activities, and expressive journaling, participants will learn to use writing as a tool for emotional awareness, stress reduction, and focus.
Perfect for children who benefit from sensory input, need support with handwriting skills, or want to develop better self-regulation in an engaging and creative way.