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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Handwriting; Spacing between words (Worksheets).
Graded, therapeutic worksheets developed by an Occupational Therapist. Aimed specifically at younger children learning to write sentences or older learners struggling with spacing of written work. Product can be used in conjunction with classroom activities or remedial intervention (2 D Spatial planning difficulties) Product includes:Printable worksheets .Semi-concrete activities and classroom aids for teachers.Can be used as an home programme by parents or therapists.
1st - 2nd
Handwriting
Also included in: Spacing of written work: Video and worksheet combo
Cutting Skills: Fine Motor Activity Pack (Vol. 2)
Scissor skills are an essential part of pencil grasp development. Cutting is an easy, fun way to practice the hand muscles necessary for writing. We use the same muscles and fingers (thumb, index, and middle fingers) to cut and write. It is an essential development skill for school readiness and supports writing and pencil grasp development. The WriteAbility cutting skills activity resource (Vol 2) was created by an occupational therapist and includes guidelines for the use and development of cu
PreK - 4th
Handwriting
Also included in: Developing Scissor Skills: Cutting Skills Bundle
Winter: Perceptual Activities and Worksheets
This Winter themed 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 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. It can be printed in book form or used as individual activities for the clas
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Seasons: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Activity Resource Bundle.
Visual Sequencing: Perceptual activities and worksheets.
Visual Sequencing refers to our ability to perceive items in a specific order and remember that sequence. This skill is essential for visual and language development and is needed for reading, spelling (organizing letters in a particular order), and mathematics operations. This resource includes various hands-on activities to practice visual sequential skills needed for early perceptual and cognitive development. It has easier (flashcards as well as cut, color, and paste activities) and more cha
PreK - 1st
Let's write sentences: Remedial strategy, worksheets, and activities.
This resource was created by an occupational therapist, specifically for learners in the foundation phase who struggle with using the correct punctuation (e.g., capital letters, full stop) when writing sentences. The strategy is particularly suitable for visual perception and spatial planning difficulties and challenges in attention and focus. Learners with perceptual and attention, and concentration challenges often find it challenging to use punctuation correctly during writing tasks. Sent
K - 1st
Handwriting
Also included in: WriteAbility: Let's Write Mega Bundle
Spatial Awareness: Spatial perception activities and worksheets
This Spatial Awareness Activity resource is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. 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 the ability to perceive an object's position in relation to yourself or in relation to oth
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Visual Spatial Perceptual Development: Resource Bundle
Playdough Fun with Shapes
Playdough is a exciting way to practice fine motor skills and consolidate perceptual development concepts such as shape concepts, shape recognition and shape formation and drawing. It has the added benefit of strengthening hand muscles for the development of fine motor skills. This resource includes: Shape Posters and Shape Playdough Activity mats encouraging shape recognition, shape formation and visual spatial concepts in a playful and child-friendly way. Can be printed and laminated for
PreK - 1st
Handwriting
Also included in: WriteAbility Playdough Bundle
Easter Fun: Fine Motor and Visual Perceptual Worksheets and Activities
The Easter Fun Activity resource includes various visual perceptual, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor activities. It was developed by an occupational therapist and incorporates Using the Easter theme to enhance early developmental skills, including visual discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, fine motor activities to improve pencil control and cutting skills. Lots of fun and variety to stimulate perceptual and motor skills This resource includes:6 Eye-hand coordi
PreK - 1st
Handwriting
Opposites: Activities and perceptual worksheets
Opposites: These activity resources and worksheets were designed to support children's visual perceptual and cognitive development. This resource includes various hands-on activities to practice visual and auditory skills around the theme of opposites, needed for early perceptual and cognitive development. It has easier (semi-concrete games and eye-hand coordination activities) and more challenging exercises (easy reading and writing). Easier activities can be used from age four and can be
PreK - 2nd
Transportation: Perceptual Activities, Games and Worksheets.
This Transport themed resource includes various games, activities, and worksheets to develop early learning skills. It was created by an occupational therapist and incorporate the theme of transport using early developmental skills. These skills include visual and auditory discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, spatial planning, and fine motor activities to improve pencil control and cutting skills. The resource includes Flashcards, Vocabulary posters, and hands-on ga
PreK - 1st
Vocabulary
Spring: Perceptual and fine motor activities and worksheets.
This Spring themed 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 Spring using early developmental skills, including: visual discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, spatial planning, and fine motor activities to improve pencil control and cutting skills. It can be printed in book form or used as individual activities for the classroom, therapy,
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Seasons: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Activity Resource Bundle.
Figure-Ground Perception: Occupational Therapy Activity program
An occupational therapist developed the Figure-Ground Perception Activity program to support visual perceptual development. This resource focuses on Figure-Ground Perception and includes information about perceptual development, various games, activities, and worksheets. Figure-ground perception is the ability to see an object in a busy background. This skill allows us to distinguish, segregate, isolate or find things or stimuli in varying environments. Correctly processing our visual figure
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Visual Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle
Emotions: Perceptual Activities and Worksheets
This resource explores emotions and feelings with the use of visual perceptual, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor activities. It was developed by an occupational therapist and incorporates the theme of emotions and feelings with important early developmental skills, including visual discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor activities to improve pencil control. This resource includes -4 x A6 Posters and flashcards illustrating the basic emotions, sad, h
PreK - 1st
Summer: Perceptual and fine motor activities.
This Summer themed 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 Summer 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. It can be printed in book form or used as individual activities for the c
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Seasons: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Activity Resource Bundle.
Autumn: Perceptual and fine motor activities
This Fall themed 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 Autumn 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. It can be printed in book form or used as individual activities for the classr
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Seasons: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Activity Resource Bundle.
Fun with Words: Build 3-letter words. (Digital Activity: Boom Cards)
Fun with Words: Build 3-letter words is a online (digital activity) NO printing needed.Children learn best when tasks are introduced in a fun and age-appropriate way. What is more, fun to practice creating short words during an online game ? This resource was developed by an occupational therapist and aims to develop letter/sound recognition, word building, and visual and auditory skills in an age-appropriate way. This fun activity is played online on the Boom Learning platform. It aims to c
PreK - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: Fun with Sounds: Digital (online) Mega Bundle.
Form Perception: Occupational Therapy program to develop Form Constancy.
An occupational therapist developed the Form Constancy activity program to support visual perceptual development. This resource focuses on Visual Form Constancy and includes information about perceptual development, various games, activities, and worksheets. Visual form constancy is the ability to recognize that a shape or object remains the same despite changes in size, position, direction, orientation, and distance, e.g., an object is still the same whether seen from the top, side, or undern
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Visual Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle
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About the store
Experience
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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