This web site offers ideas and activities to help elementary school-aged children develop their perceptual fine-motor skills, with an emphasis on handwriting. It is intended as a resource for parents, teachers, and therapists.

Linda Kennedy, COTA/L

I am a Certified and Licensed Occupational Therapy Assistant with over a decade of experience in pediatrics, most of which has been spent in the school setting. I work with children who have perceptual fine motor difficulties and my goal is to help them to achieve success in fun, esteem building ways.

Poor handwriting skills may be due to a variety of factors including poor positioning, visual perceptual difficulties, motor planning problems, muscle weakness, etc. An Occupational Therapist, along with the classroom teacher and parents, can act as a sort of "detective" to determine the areas of difficulty which might be preventing your child from experiencing success with handwriting and other perceptual fine-motor tasks.