DISCLAIMER: I am an occupational therapist, but not your child's occupational therapist. This episode is not meant to provide any therapeutic or medical advice. If you are concerned about your child's development you should always contact your child's pediatrician. Thank you and enjoy the show!

Before a child begins to learn how to form letters, they should learn prewriting shapes. The act of writing and drawing is a very complex process. You have to have an image in your head, and you need to translate that into writing or drawing on a piece of paper. So many skills are needed for handwriting and drawing, and in a future episode I will go into those details, and what enables a person to be able to write. But, today, I focus on prewriting and why it is such an important step into writing, and why it is important at the preschool level.

Jennifer Kubinski, OTR/L is the creator of The OT Corner with Mrs. K podcast and website. She has been an occupational therapist for over 20 years, and has treated people across the lifespan, but has settled into being a school based occupational therapist. If you have any questions or would like to be on the show, you can email her at [email protected].

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