Back to Basics: Printing – The Forgotten Foundation for Literacy
Overview
If a child can’t print, they are essentially illiterate. Children who can’t remember how to make their letters and numbers, or who have poor letter recognition, are delayed in spelling, math, sentence composition, socials, and science. Visual memory attained during letter production impacts on visual recognition necessary for reading. These often bright children are left behind with labels of ‘learning disabled’, when they really just need to learn to print. Poor foundation skills at school entry, teachers spending 14 minutes per day average printing instruction, and non-standardized teaching and evaluation methods, all limit achievement of this integral skill. If we’re still doing it, we’d better be teaching it!
Cost
CD-M – Motor Development: Back to Basics Printing Skills – The Forgotten Foundation of Literacy
Cost $99
Goal
Back to Basics raises awareness regarding increasing incidence of developmental delays, and the reasons why schools still need to teach printing. Back to Basics offers parents, schools, government and university suggestions and initiatives on how to ease the job of printing and reading for all children.
Learning Outcomes
- Relate current fine motor development and literacy research, to printing and reading problems
- Evaluate developmental skill level, and apply early interventions for attaining foundation skills
- Assess 13 specific areas of fine motor impairment, and apply developmentally relevant strategies
- Apply the Move’in Program concepts, tools and techniques to improve printing and reading skill
Handouts
Fine Motor Observations and Strategies
Foundation Scale for Grades K-6
Printing Basics Guide
Evidence based – Research referenced – Strategy focused
Creator and Speaker
Webinar creator Cris Rowan is a well-known speaker and author to parents, teachers and clinicians throughout North America in the field of sensory integration, motor development, learning enhancement and the impact of technology on children’s neurological development. Cris has Bachelor of Science degrees in both Occupational Therapy and in Biology and is a SIPT certified Pediatric Sensory Specialist. Cris is CEO of Sunshine Coast Occupational Therapy Inc. and Zone’in Programs Inc. offering workshops/webinars, training, and consultation services to enhance child development, behavior and learning. Cris is a prolific writer creating the Child Development Series Newsletter, Moving to Learn blog, Unplug – Don’t Drug peer reviewed publication, 10 Reasons to ban handheld devices in children under 12 viral Huffington Post article with 7.2 million “likes”, as well as her first book Virtual Child – The terrifying truth about what technology is doing to children. Cris is a member of the internationally renowned Institute for Digital Media and Child Development and the Children’s Screen Time Action Network – Screens in Schools Committee.
Who should buy and watch Webinar?
Parents, teachers, administrators, special education staff, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, physical therapists, counsellors, physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and child care providers. Child Development Webinars are designed to be introductory level for therapists, intermediate for teachers and advanced for parents, child care workers and teaching assistants.
Accessing Webinar Recordings
Each Child Development Webinar is 3 hours each, and is accessed via your computer or tablet. Package includes video and handouts.
Once signed in, you can access your files at anytime, watch at your leisure, alone or with your friends/colleagues, or show them at a Pro-D!.
Stop and start the recording to suit your schedule – watch as many times as you like!
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All prices are in Canadian funds.
Cost
CD-M – Motor Development: Back to Basics Printing Skills – The Forgotten Foundation of Literacy
Cost $99
Also available in the Child Development Series:
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CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERIES WEBINARS$499.00 -
WEBINAR – SENSORY PROCESSING$99.00 -
WEBINAR – MOTOR DEVELOPMENT$99.00 -
WEBINAR – ATTACHMENT AND ADDICTIONS$99.00 -
WEBINAR – ATTENTION AND LEARNING$99.00 -
WEBINAR – SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS$99.00 -
WEBINAR – TECHNOLOGY BALANCE$99.00
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