WriteAbility
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Eversdalheights, South Africa
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I am an Occupational Therapist with a Master's degree in occupational therapy. I am passionate about early intervention and have a special interest in Pediatrics, Sensory Integration, and ADHD. I have more than 20 years of experience in early childhood development and have worked in private practice, special education as well as public school settings.
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Visual Spatial Perceptual Development: Resource Bundle
This Visual Spatial Resource Bundle is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. It was created by an occupational therapist and includes a variety of activities and worksheets. Spatial awareness is knowing where your body is in space in relation to objects or other people. To have good spatial awareness, you also need to understand and respond to a change in position from these objects. This is a complex skill that children develop from an early age. Spatial perception is t
PreK - 2nd
WriteAbility Fine Motor Development Mini Bundle
What is fine motor development? Fine Motor skills are those skills that require the small muscles of the hand to work together to perform precise and refined movements. As fine motor skills develop and mature, children start to use crayons, pencils, and scissors. By the time a child goes to school, there are many fine motor skills that they generally demonstrate in a well-integrated way. Depending on the child's previous experience and exposure to different activities, the quality of these ski
PreK - 2nd
Handwriting
Visual Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle
Visual perception is the brain's ability to receive, interpret, and act upon visual stimuli. Perception included the follow skills: Visual discrimination(The ability to distinguish one shape from another).Visual memory( The ability to remember a specific form when removed from your visual field).Visual-spatial relationships (The ability to recognize forms that are the same but may be in a different spatial orientation). Visual form constancy (The ability to discern similar forms that may be dif
PreK - 1st
Number Concepts: WriteAbility Number Bundle
Number Concepts: WriteAbility Number Bundle was compiled by an occupational therapist to develop number sense in young children (age 4 to 8). Number sense is a group of skills that allow kids to work with numbers. Number Sense includes skills such as: · Understanding quantities. · Ability to rote count · Form numbers correctly · Grasping concepts like more and less, and larger and smaller. · Understanding symbols representing quantities (7 means the same thing as seven). · Making number comparis
PreK - 1st
Numbers
Seasons: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Activity Resource Bundle.
The Seasons: Perceptual and Fine Motor Activity resource, includes a variety of activities and worksheets aimed at developing early learning skills. It was created by an occupational therapist and incorporates the theme of Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, using early developmental skills, including visual discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, spatial planning, visual sequential and fine motor activities to improve pencil control and cutting skills. This
PreK - 1st
Fun with Sounds: Digital (online) Mega Bundle.
Fun with Sounds: Digital (online) Mega BundleThis resource includes 5 WriteAbility Online resources. Activities are aimed at consolidation of beginning, middle and end sounds, letter recognition and building 3 letter words in a game format. These games introduce beginning, middle and end sounds, expands vocabulary, and develops auditory and visual perceptual abilities) as well as critical thinking. It can be played independently depending on the child's age and skill level. It consists of 5 reso
PreK - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
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I am an Occupational Therapist with a Master's degree in occupational therapy. I am passionate about early intervention and have a special interest in Pediatrics, Sensory Integration, and ADHD. I have more than 20 years of experience in early childhood development and have worked in private practice, special education as well as public school settings.
Teaching style
As occupational therapists we are passionate about children and early development. Writing ability entails so much more than just fine motor skills. There are many foundational skills necessary to enable neat, legible writing with appropriate speed, spacing and quality.
WriteAbility aims to support teachers, therapists and parents with information, tools and therapeutic home and classroom activities to support and develop all aspects of writing skills for children from PreK to 3rd Grade.
If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Dedre van Wyngaard Occupational Therapist. (M.Occ.Ther)
Occupational Therapist, Educational consultant and Part Time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch South Africa.
My own education history
B. Occ Therapy University of Stellenbosch 1999
M. Occ Therapy University of Stellenbosch 2008
Sensory Integration Certified SAISI 2009
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