Making Handwriting Easier for
EVERY CHILD
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All children want to participate in the joys of writing, sharing stories, and drawing pictures. For children, writing is a meaningful part of expressing themselves, learning about the world, and engaging with it.
For some kids, it’s hard to hold a pencil, get words down on paper, and write legibly enough for others to read. Many adults say “Ahh, just use a laptop” but often children struggling to meet paper and pencil have just as many coordination problems connecting fingers to a keyboard.
Every young person ought to have the tools to write down and share their stories and world! Help your child or student with our time-tested and useful resources: Evaluation Tool of Children’s Handwriting (ETCH) and TRICS for Written Communication.
“A child benefits from handwriting to develop strong neural pathways for learning.”
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TRICS is an intervention resource focusing on student who experience mechanical and organizational difficulty during written communication and other school tasks. School professionals, child specialists, and parents will gain over 400 remedial and compensatory strategies for improving students’ writing and functional dexterity in the classroom.
Reproducible TRICS Interventions are available to share with teachers, parents, and school personnel for classroom and home use.
TRICS Sections include:
• Handwriting in Academics
• Legibility Mechanics
• Handwriting Biomechanics
• Foundations of Function
•Computer Technology
This 139-page spiral bound manual is the perfect intervention complement to the Evaluation Tool of Children’s Handwriting (ETCH)
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The ETCH is a criterion-reference tool designed to evaluate manuscript and cursive handwriting skills of children in Grades 1 through 6.
It assesses a student’s legibility and speed of handwriting tasks similar to those in the elementary classroom. ETCH tasks include alphabet and numerical writing, near-point and far-point copying, dictation, and sentence generation. It takes stock of legibility components, pencil grasp, hand preference, pencil pressure, manipulative skills with the writing tool, and classroom observations.
Administration time is 20 to 25 minutes with scoring taking 15 to 20 minutes.
The user-friendly test kit includes: reproducible score sheets and response booklets; quick reference sheets; wall charts; task sheets; scoring card; and detailed Examiner’s Manual with test administration and scoring procedures.
The ETCH is a basic resource for every school-based practitioner.