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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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Preview of Handwriting; Spacing between words (Worksheets).

Handwriting; Spacing between words (Worksheets).

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WriteAbility
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.
Preview of Cutting Skills: Fine Motor Activity Pack (Vol. 2)

Cutting Skills: Fine Motor Activity Pack (Vol. 2)

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WriteAbility
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
Preview of Complete WriteAbility Number Bundle

Complete WriteAbility Number Bundle

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WriteAbility
The Complete Number Bundle resource includes various number games to consolidate number concepts and encourage the correct formation of numbers (1-10). An occupational therapist created the resources in this bundle. It includes various semi-concrete games, fun worksheets to consolidate early learning, playdough number mats, number posters, and tracing pages to consolidate number formation. The bundle focuses on teaching the correct method for forming each number, utilizing an animation video and
Preview of Winter: Perceptual Activities and Worksheets

Winter: Perceptual Activities and Worksheets

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WriteAbility
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
Preview of Spatial Awareness: Spatial perception activities and worksheets

Spatial Awareness: Spatial perception activities and worksheets

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WriteAbility
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
Preview of Playdough Fun with Shapes

Playdough Fun with Shapes

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WriteAbility
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
Preview of Opposites: Activities and perceptual worksheets

Opposites: Activities and perceptual worksheets

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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
Preview of Spring: Perceptual and fine motor activities and worksheets.

Spring: Perceptual and fine motor activities and worksheets.

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WriteAbility
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,
Preview of Spatial Perception: Activities and Worksheets

Spatial Perception: Activities and Worksheets

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This activity resource, "Spatial Perception: Activities and Worksheets" is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development.  Spatial perception is the ability to perceive an object's position in relation to yourself or in relation to other objects. It implies the ability to perceive which way an object or symbol is positioned/turned.   Spatial perception helps a child sequence letters and numbers correctly, such as "swim" and not "siwm." It helps a child orientate and write letters
Preview of Figure-Ground Perception: Occupational Therapy Activity program

Figure-Ground Perception: Occupational Therapy Activity program

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WriteAbility
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
Preview of Emotions: Perceptual Activities and Worksheets

Emotions: Perceptual Activities and Worksheets

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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
Preview of Pre-Writing Lines and Activities to develop Pencil Control.

Pre-Writing Lines and Activities to develop Pencil Control.

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Pre-writing lines are  lines and shapes that toddlers and preschoolers learn in a developmental sequence that help them to form letters later on for handwriting.  Lines down, across, cross shapes, circles, squares, diagonal  lines are all considered  pre-writing lines.This resource includes various pre-writing lines and writing patterns, trace the lines, and mazes to improve pre-writing skills and pencil control for neat, legible writing.  It is a fun way to practice and consolidate these skil
Preview of Form Perception: Occupational Therapy program to develop Form Constancy.

Form Perception: Occupational Therapy program to develop Form Constancy.

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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
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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