Handwriting or Keyboarding or Speech-to-Text? A School OT Decision Guide

Compare handwriting, keyboarding, and speech-to-text for classroom writing. Use a school OT decision guide to consider access, efficiency, and participation.

Compare handwriting, keyboarding, and speech-to-text for classroom writing. Use a school OT decision guide to consider access, efficiency, and participation.

Use this school OT decision guide to compare task demands, supports, and settings when a student can perform a skill but struggles to use it consistently.

A parent reached out to me looking for strategies that helped with Torticollis and Plagiocephaly. She was worried about the long-term and short-term effects. on her child’s development. After putting some ideas together and working with this one parent, I…

The 2 main issues with teaching a proper pencil grasp are a) it takes forever (especially if you are trying to fix old habits) and b) it does not always generalize into the classroom setting i.e. students tend to revert…