When kids struggle with handwriting, it’s rarely just about messy letters.
The real barriers often run deeper: poor postural control, underdeveloped hand strength, visual deficits, or neurological conditions like ADHD, dyslexia, SPD, and dysgraphia.
That means traditional fixes like pencil grips, tracing sheets, and workbooks only scratch the surface.
This course goes beyond the basics. It gives you everything you need — from start to finish — to assess, treat, and transform fine motor and visual-motor skills in children.
You’ll not only learn the “what” and “why,” you’ll see it in action as Kristin Valdes, OTD, OT, CHT—a nationally recognized hand therapist—conducts a real-time assessment of a 5-year-old boy, from initial observation through standardized scoring.
No fluff. No filler. Just practical, time-efficient strategies you can integrate into daily routines—eliminating the tedium of repetitive handwriting drills and making a lasting impact on your students’ success.
Fine Motor Clinical Confidence Starts Here—From Observation to Outcome
✔ Earn up to 3.5 CE hours
✔ Huge library of printable assessments, activities & guides
$169.99 Value – Only $99.99 today
This course bridges the gap between knowing what’s wrong and knowing what to do about it. You’ll get a structured, real-world approach to identifying the root causes of motor and visual challenges—then learn exactly how to design engaging, functional interventions that fit your setting. Whether you're addressing posture, grasp, letter formation, or legibility, you'll gain clear strategies to assess, intervene, and track progress with confidence.
- Graphomotor, ADD/ADHD, Dylsexia, SPD, dysgraphia
- Improve skills in differentiating between similar presenting problems
- Bilateral coordination
- Core strength and trunk control
- Visual assessment and ties to misdiagnosis of ADHD
- What age is ‘too late’ to fix?
- Proportion
- Reversals
- Alignment
- Closing
- Spacing
- Formation
- Top strategies for shoulder stability
- Close chain UE exercises to build postural control
- Engaging games for wrist and forearm strengthening
- Sculpting, squirting, and other fun grip strengthening activities
- Focus on sizing to increase legibility
- Grasp patterns
- Line alignment
- Letter size
- Letter spacing
- Letter orientation
- Gain strategies to address handwriting issues linked with ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, SPD, and more
- How to shift activities so that they provide meaning and value to child
- Tips to maximize engagement
- Dry erase board games
- Salt, shaving cream, and other multisensory strategies
- Pencil and paper activities: developmental progression guidelines
- 5 fun activities for pincer grasp
- Apps that enhance fine motor skills
- Documentation tips to continue treatment in school based settings
Take the guesswork out of planning and documentation with our complete library of clinician-created, kid-tested handouts:
✔ Quick assessments & checklists: handwriting and legibility analyzers, GIFT & ZGT tools, and age-based fine motor milestones✔ Strength & fine motor builders: creative grip-strengthening games, “Top 10” writing strength builders, and The Big 5 Hand Functions
✔ Vision & multisensory supports: binocular vision quick guide, letter formation framework, and multisensory writing toolkit
✔ Parent/teacher communication aids: ready-to-use prompts, at-home activity sheets, and caregiver-friendly strategy guides
Click here for information about Kristin Valdes
Transforming Visual Motor Skills for Academic Success
From Assessment to Intervention—In Real Time and Real Practice
✔ Earn up to 3.5 CE hours
✔ Digital library packed with assessment tools and therapy resources
$169.99 Value – Only $99.99
We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.