In this episode, Sabrena Schaefer shares how the Dotterer Dysgraphia Method transformed her understanding of dysgraphia, a disability in written expression. She and Cheri exchange ideas to support handwriting challenges. Sabrena shares how she remediated a student to write the letter "a" and Cheri adds additional methods to remediate that letter. These interventions can be used for any letter or number.

What is dysgraphia?

Before I took the course, I thought dysgraphia was having a hard time writing letters or forming letters backward, writing above the line, through the line, and under the line, or having challenges with writing. 

How did a course change your perspective?

Now that I have taken the Dotterer Dysgraphia Method, I know that it's much more than the written component that students struggle. So it's as her book is titled the brain-body disconnect. I learned much more in-depth as I read the book and took the course. 

Sabrena shares intervention strategies that she created from the course.

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Dysgraphia, a disability in written expression, results from a neurological glitch that blocks your student's path to success, creating a disconnect between the brain and the body. Working in a classroom where students struggle to keep up with the teacher because they cannot recall what letter to write or the words to write is frustrating to both the teacher and the student. They get stuck three sentences behind the teacher and struggle to copy material from the board. It just breaks my heart to see kids struggling in the classroom.

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