Maximizing Learning Readiness for Students: Strategies and Tips

Explore the importance of learning readiness and strategies to enhance students' capability to learn, including sensory regulation, handwriting tips, and addressing underdeveloped skills. Learn about the impact of modern factors like technology on children's learning readiness.

• Learning readiness
• Student capability
• Sensory regulation
• Handwriting strategies
• Underdeveloped skills

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1. Learning Readiness: Maximizing Your Students' Capability to Learn + Bonus Writing Tips Augustine Literacy Project Augustine Literacy Project March 9, 2022 March 9, 2022 Heidi Tringali, MS,OTR/L Heidi Tringali, MS,OTR/L Tringali Occupational Therapy Services Tringali Occupational Therapy Services

2. Overview Why? Ready-Demand-Response What is Learning Readiness? Approach Is there an increase in performance related issues in children today? Sensory 101 1:1 Tutoring Strategies Strategies Handwriting and Pencil Grips Questions

3. Why is it important to talk about Learning Readiness Ready Demand Response

4. Cognitively Organized Physically Calm Learning Readiness Socially Connected

5. A PANDEMIC!! Back to Sleep (1991) 5-point car restraints/seat belts/car seats (1978-85) Contributors to Learning Readiness Issues No Child Left Behind (2002) TV/Computer/Cell phones/Blue Tooth/DVD players/Video Games Over-informed with information from the media, medical community, and pharmaceutical companies Fear

6. The Result Underdeveloped sensory systems Weak core muscles Weak gross motor skills Weak visual motor skills Underdeveloped social skills Weak fine motor skills Sleep disturbances Difficulty with organization

7. The Sensory System 101

8. Sensory Regulation: aka Learning Readiness Organized, calm, connected Vestibular (spinning, swinging, inversion histamine, organizing) Proprioception (heavy work, joint pressure serotonin, calming) Deep pressure (deep pressure throughout the tactile system dopamine, connectedness)

9. Strategies for Organization/Vestibular Toe Touches Bats and butterflies Inverted wall walk Over/under ball pass Inverted ball push Rolling

10. Strategies for Calm/Proprioception Bottle Buddies Weighted Vest Weighted Lap Pad Weighted Ball Pressure on shoulders in sitting Carry heavy books/objects Wrist/ankle weights

11. Strategies for Connectedness Texture Squares Theraputty Squishy ball Velcro dots Pressure Clothes Resistive Tunnel Body Sock

12. Pencil Grip Tripod/Quadropod Handwriting and Pencil Grip Strategies Pencil Grips Grotto grip Letter formation start, sequence Sitting position 90-90-90 Print v Cursive v Keyboarding Diagnosis Dysgraphia, Disorder of Written Expression

13. Summary and Questions Heidi Tringali, MS,OTR/L Tringali Occupational Therapy Services heidi@charlotteot.com heiditringali@gmail.com 704.577.4094