*********** 15 Skills or Abilities in Handwriting *********** ************ *************************

The skills are needed for Handwriting.

Many people has impression that cursive style of Handwriting is old fashioned & outdated.

Majority have taken cursive out of their curriculum. Not having cursive as an option is detrimental for many children who struggle with their Handwriting work.

1.  Fine Motor Coordination

Small motor skills that build upon & influence each other, leading to gradual refinement of skilled Hand & Finger movements.

2.  Visual Focusing

The ability for the Eyes to work together.

3.  Mental attention

The ability to screen out the distraction.

4.  Organized  physical movements

The ability to maintain posture & hold the writing instrument.

5. Receptive Language

The ability to perceive abstract concepts & follow verbal directions.

6.  Inner expressive Language

The ability to think clearly , organize ideas, concepts & communicate through writing.

7. Memory Recall

The ability to remember letter formations and the required movements necessary to make each letter and connection.

8. Concentration with awareness

The ability to maintain consistent awareness of details & form over a period of time.

9. Spatial perceptions

The ability to utilize space.

10. Organization

The ability to organize Mind, Body & space to produce meaningful responses.

11. Integration

The ability to unit the Mind, Body & space to create meaningful written expressions.

12.   Eye- Hand coordination

The ability to use the Eyes & Hand together as a seamless unit.

13.  Motor Planning

The ability to plan & carry out an action.

  14.  Tactile input

The ability to feel the pencil in Hand & apply the appropriate pressure to write.

15.  Crossing Mid line

The movements of the Eyes, a Hand, or forearm to move across the midsection of the body without moving  any other part of the body.

Happy Handwriting !

How to Celebrate National Handwriting Day?

      Ideas on How to  Celebrate
      National Handwriting  Day!

• Write a note or letter to someone you prefer or Love.
• Informative Notes to those serving in the military or people who are elderly or ill will be well received.
• Learn more about John Hancock and the Declaration of Independence.
• Start an autograph book or Start personnel Daily Diary.
• Practice making your writing legible and neat.
• Bake a cake for John Hancock and sign your name in large letters with icing.
• Share your ideas on your Facebook, twitter, Instagram,   Pinterest, Linkedin & Google page    
• Write in Legible Handwriting in Notebook at School & in Homework.
• Oath to write in Legible Handwriting.

How do you celebrate National Handwriting Day? 

Please share with us.

REBUILD YOUR HANDWRITING

Following are the important points can overcome the difficulties in handwriting by the learners. Consider which foundation skills the learner may be having difficulties with in developing his or her handwriting skills.

The problem may be in any one or combination of the following five areas.

Follow the above correction with learner, sure you will find improvement in your Handwriting.

Happy Handwriting. 

"Give Strength to Kids Handwriting"

1. Popping plastic bubble wrapping material using a pincer grasp.
2. Squeezing clothes pegs  (helping to hang up or take down clothes on the clothes line or similar activity).
3.  Using a hole puncher for art activities.
4.  Open and hold the school door for the teachers or class.
5.  Help erase the blackboard or whiteboard.
6.  Pouring activities e.g. water plants.
7.  At home, digging in the garden, raking, sweeping, cleaning windows, carrying groceries etc.
8. Finger Painting – using individual fingers, do shapes, pre- writing  patterns.
9. Play dough-squeezing, rolling, and pinching.
10. Use a rainbow ribbon to make circles and figures of 8 in different positions.
11. Climbing and monkey bar games where the arms have to pull up the child’s body weight.
12. Playing ‘wheelbarrows’ or other games where the child bears his body weight through his arms.
13. Animal walks, obstacle courses and crawling.
14. Crab walks in all directions (tummy in air).
15. Making bridges with their bodies.
16. Making the letter shapes with their bodies; this will teach them about shapes and improve core strength

START NOW, Help your Kids to improve their Handwriting in Time...

DIVULGE INNER ANXIETY

Handwriting divulges  kids’ inner anxiety

According to an some article in one of the news paper that Handwriting reveals kids’ inner anxiety.

At least 10 to 15% of the kids in a classroom are suffering from attention-related disorders, aggression and other psychological issues...currently.  School counselors have started linking such psychological aberrations with handwriting saying that the way kids write often reveals their innermost turmoil.”

It has therefore become important for schools and teachers that they should spot the problems in the child’s handwriting and seek remedies from experienced graphologists and handwriting experts.

Ms. (X) in her article says, “It's a complex situation and starts from the primary stage with bad handwriting. Children from the kindergarten stage are mandatory put through a handwriting regimen, first through pattern drawing and then formation of letters and cursive writing. This follows an international format certified by the UNICEF which should help them develop a legible, if not beautiful, handwriting by the time they are well into the primary stage. But, typically, there would be some kids, about seven to eight in a class of 45, who are not be able to grasp these techniques, not because of a learning disorder but because of they are suffering from deep psychosomatic disorders. Kids are divided into two categories Y2 and Y6 for this. The former indicates kids who are about seven years old and the latter are for those who are 11 years old. By the time they reach the Y2 stage, kids should be able to display a certain threshold of handwriting consistency, though the desired neatness happens at the Y6 stage. Children, who are still sloppy after Y6, are naturally displaying inner disturbance and need immediate psycho mapping and therapy, it is believed.”

What are your views on the subject? Don’t you feel the need to get the illegible and sloppy handwriting's of your kids rectified by professionals? If you answer it affirmative, contact Handwriting expert/Trainer, You can also let your child (or the students of your school) participate in any Handwriting Olympiad where kids get individualized corrective advice, right from the desk of handwriting experts to improve their handwriting.

           Happy Year 2016 with

 Happy &Healthy Handwriting!!  

Now or Never

Think again & again, motivate to write in legible Handwriting to our kids. Even though it does not exist in some Schools/digital schools around the globe. You can train your kids for Handwriting as an extracurricular also. This activity acts as a vitamin to the children in their growing age as a nutrition to their betterment or a support to enhance their learning skills. Handwriting & reading from various books increases their interest in the learning skills. It is a vital vitamin in their beginning of the early periods of life. The advancement of the technology has caused the benefits along with the few demerits. But these few demerits are more important for the children & that might affect on the next generation’s learning skills.

The one of the statistics below has resulted into figures.

Statistics:

According to an infographic published by Everyday Family,

1. 54% of 21st century kids start using mobile devices when they are 5 to 8 years old.
2. 30% of the apps on parents’ mobile are downloaded specially for their children’s usage.
3. 77% of the parents accept that usage of tablet that increases children’s learning & creativity.
4. 72% of iTunes top selling apps are designed for pre-schoolers and elementary students.

But in spite all these studies, do the technology providers have taken up any lesson nor even the parents ?

The above figure shows an increase in the FANs of Latest Technology to improvement in the learning skills by the Digital era but for those who get these latest gadgets or available or can afford it.

The technology avails the data that is not required in readymade & quick information to the kids, teenagers & youth on a finger click without any pains to look for it in a premature period of age for a such information causes to early maturity in a wrong time of age. Technology is expensive in some part of the world or affordability issues lead to chaos in inequality issues in the society.

Nowadays the technology has developed in such a way that it ensures the parental control with security & safety for children. Instead of all these locks & measures, if one decides for their kids to handle or allow these latest technological options on or after certain age than that will prove the best for the kids for their betterment in their future. These precautionary measures can control or restrict the adverse effects on kids , if any !

Technology has the challenge on controlling the ratio for

The Right Information : At the Right Age & to overcome the demerits causing advert effects on child.

The sales target by the Company’s/Manufacturer’s sees to it that it pushes their latest products or attract consumers to reach to that latest technology product very effectively. On the other hand, if this target does the studies on the impact of their products on the society or the demerits affected on next generation (Kids youth or below them) before launching via some research will be more remarkable to boost their sales & may avoid the adverse effects on children/society. Only these targets can save the next generation’s derailment in the traditional ,Cheap, easy & effective proven way of improving their learning skills & one of the traditional way is Good Handwriting .

Ensure to adopt a Legible Handwriting at least as an extracurricular activity in Digital Schools regularly & effectively.

Handwriting mustn’t fade with time.


    Happy Year 2016 with Happy & Healthy Handwriting!

Handwriting - Is it on the verge of extinction?

We all have witnessed how technological devices like tablets and smart phones have been ruling our lives lately & aggressively. With such a ease and convenience at hand, we have been unknowingly becoming too dependent to these aids & Gadgets. Typing over MS word, making to-do lists in mobile phone apps, noting reminders on mobile calendars have almost declined the need to write in hand & the noting in personal Daily Diary in own Handwriting.

But, does this give us an excuse to ignore the fact that handwriting still forms the basic component where our education begins? Are we in a state where we can neglect or undo the need of handwritten assignments that kids need to submit in their schools? Absolutely not… How-much-so-ever technology may dominate our needs and demands, handwriting will remain an essential part of the learning process in the schools.

Even though the Digital Schools are educating the children since from very beginning, they also require to learn children to write in Handwriting.
Digital Schools must not forget the importance of Handwriting for the mankind & the benefits of Handwriting forever for the lifetime.

Technology isn’t the enemy of education. It’s when applications are created with a holistic view that technology can be its saving grace.
Handwriting and Technology are integral parts of both teaching and learning.

Handwriting was, & still is the part of CHILD’s DEVELOPMENT
Why can’t we forget handwriting, at least in schools? Because…

· It helps in identifying the alphabets that forms the written                 expression of a language.
· It develops the ability to learn the language itself.
· It adds to vocabulary and written etiquette's of communication.
· It indirectly helps build a fluent verbal communication.
· It helps remember useful information for long, sometime for a
   lifetime.
· It minimizes errors in writing and while speaking.
· Many more….

If you too realize the importance of handwriting and the need to write legibly, Start Now & Encourage other as well to write.

Happy Handwriting !!