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Handwriting Brain-Body DisConnect helps child development professionals better understand their students who struggle with handwriting. This groundbreaking book helps them understand how many students suffer every day because they struggle with handwriting. From Response to Intervention to the Individualized Education Program, this book provides strategies readers can use at a moment's notice. How many of your students suffer every day because they struggle with handwriting? Educating struggling students among those without difficulties is daunting. This book has helps teachers, parents, occupational therapists, and other school professionals make sense of this phenomenon called dysgraphia. From Response to Intervention to the Individualized Education Program, you will discover strategies to put in your mental toolbox that you can use at a moment's notice. Discover the Types of Dysgraphia today! Visual-Spatial Motor Memory Word Formation Sentence Formation Paragraph Formation Literacy = Reading (sensory) + Oral (motor) and Writing (motor) Expression + Keyboarding + Math + Science

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In her famous TED talk, the late Rita Pierson said, Every child deserves a champion; an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best they can possibly be. In Handwriting Brain-Body Disconnect, Cheri Dotterer makes it clear that she is that champion as she navigates you through the maze of dysgraphia. This journey of understanding took Cheri many years, so you are not left to figure this it out on your own. Her personal insight and practical advice ensure you won't go it alone. Cheri shares her story about how she personally navigated this process. She's lived it. Now she makes sure you know exactly what steps to take. This book is about more than finding a way to help with dysgraphia. It's about finding a way for all of us to work through our invisible challenges. Unlocking dysgraphia is just a result when you care for those you serve. Cheri's content is clear, concise, and an easy read for parents, and it's packed with content for therapists Handwriting Brain-Body DisConnect and teachers. Cheri wants you to see results, and these steps will get you there. I'm excited for you because in my conversations with Cheri about learning differences, I know the content in this book will give you the answers you've been seeking. As an educator for over 20 years, I am passionate about finding ways for all children to learn. I believe this content will give parents hope that their children will be able to do far above what they even believed possible. Anita M. McLaurin, M. Ed. Specialty Curriculum Design and Development Author of My Father Said I Could ENDORSEMENTS Cheri gives us a much-needed resource for children who struggle with written expression, and for the parents and teachers who work with them. Her unique and in-depth perspective sheds new light on a very misunderstood phenomenon. -Cristina Urban, MS, OTR/L, parent of a child with dysgraphia An eye-opening resource! Cheri presents the information in such an understandable and flowing manner for parents, teachers, and therapists. She breaks down and explains the types of dysgraphia with the focus on building those neural pathways. I also appreciate her transparency with sharing her own struggles. -Jorge Ochoa, OTR/L Cheri is an exceptional speaker and a very good communicator. Truly enjoyed her presentation and everyone was enlightened by her knowledge of Dysgraphia. Working on a hands-on activity during her speech set the learning process in motion for the group. We will invite Cheri back. -Andee Swoyer, Community leader

This book was enormously helpful to us. It gives easy-to-read, insightful context for the issues surrounding dysgraphia in kids. It gives concrete and specific ways to support and help kids with these issues at school and home. Dotterer has a sensitivity and deep knowledge of the issues made for a really informative, compassionate, and goal-oriented guide. Highly recommend it if your child has issues with handwriting, dysgraphia, and written expression.-DB

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