[nobe-l] working with younger kids

[Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.]

Hello Heather,

APH has a writing kit with cursive letters etched on a plastic board. These are meant for blind people to learn to trace letters, and to get used to their shapes.

There is a dotted line pat that comes tiht the kit, and also a screan that creates a tactile image of what you write on the paper pad.

The thought is that you learn with the plastic mold by tracing, and practice with paper and tactile feedback.

HTH,

Antonio Guimaraes



On Feb 19, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Heather wrote:

> I will give them that suggestion.  I wanted to do something like this but
> they did not seem impressed.  Apparently they don't have teacher's aid in
> the class because there is only 7 students in the class.  I just wanted to
> work there because it was close to my home and to my other job providing
> child care to a couple of other students.  I wanted to get tactile letters
> upper case and lower case.  I remember seeing one that you could put on a
> magnet board.  I could not find it on amazon because the one I saw had all
> the letters plus the board.  Thanks for the info!  Heather 
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> I teach handwriting in lots of ways. We write in play dough, we write in wet
> sand, we use a pen on paper on a pile of news paper or rubber board, we work
> on hand strength and memorizing the steps to writing the letter, we use hand
> writing practice pages that I have a reader look at later. It isn't easy,
> but it can be done. Sometimes I would work with the group doing fine motor
> activities why the teacher worked with the kids on the actual paper writing.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Hello, I applied to work with kindergarten kids part time as I complete my
> certification.  The person I was talking to said I would not be a good fit
> because I cant teach hand writing skills or correct their papers because I
> am blind.  So I am asking if there are teachers who have to deal with this
> issue.  And how do they teach hand writing to sighted kids.  Heather 
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