Poor vision and poor hearing will affect a child’s learning and social skills.
Signs of poor eyesight: If a child complains of headaches, eye strains, or is rubbing eyes excessively, has difficult reading, or holds the object too close to the eyes to view it or has difficulty concentrating then get your child’s eye tested. A [...]
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Vision And Hearing Test
January 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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Handwriting Paper
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Kids have to practice handwriting on special handwriting paper. Teaching them on a normal notebook paper will lead to confusion. On handwriting paper every letter or number is written within a character spacer line. Writing lines act as a guide – they help the child to write the letter with the correct height, width [...]
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Right Posture When Practicing Handwriting
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Teaching the child the right way to sit when writing plays an important part in teaching the child good handwriting skills. If a child’s posture is not correct it makes the child uncomfortable and this in turn affects his or her handwriting.
A posture is how a person holds his or her body when walking, sitting [...]
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Handwriting without Tears – Use the Correct Approach When Teaching Left Handed Kids
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments
In the last few years the number of left handed persons has increased dramatically. This is partly because left handed children are not forced to use the right hand for writing any more but are rather encouraged to use whichever hand the child shows a preference to. Previously a left handed child was always [...]
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Handwriting Analysis and Personality
December 13th, 2007 · No Comments
We have all heard ‘handwriting analysis’ before. ‘Graphology’ is the analysis of handwriting particularly in relation human mind. People who have the skills to analyze handwriting determine a person’s character by analyzing their handwriting.
We also know that the best time to develop good handwriting skills is between ages 3 and 10. In the past ten [...]
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Teaching Good Handwriting
December 12th, 2007 · No Comments
“We all know alphabets, so why not we just write the alphabets on a paper and get our children to practice them?”
If you are thinking like that then you are not alone. However I am sorry to say that it is the wrong approach. We need to write the alphabets as per the method [...]
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Developing Fine Motor Skills
December 7th, 2007 · No Comments
There are many activities you can expose your children to - A lot of activities are fun and also help in developing fine motor skills…..There are basically three kinds of activities which will help to develop your child’s fine motor skills:
Grasping - example: using a pencils, crayons, brushes etc
Manipulating - example: scissors, kneading, picking etc
Hand-eye [...]
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Fine Motor Skills For Preschoolers
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Fine Motor Skills is the ability to control small precise movements with the fingers, wrists and hands. These skills are important for day to day activities in life. They also play a very important role in the school activities. A child’s handwriting skills depends on the child’s fine motor skills. There are lots of activities [...]
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Posture When Working On Computers
November 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Here are some tips for right posture when your child is working on the computer:
The computer monitor has to be at the child’s eye level. Otherwise they will strain their necks. Above eye level is not good at all.
The keyboard and mouse have to be slightly lower than a writing desk so that the shoulders [...]
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Posture Correction - Correct Posture For Kids When Reading and Writing
November 15th, 2007 · No Comments
Good posture is important and plays a key role in handwriting skills. Bad posture creates stress on young spines. Here are some tips to get that perfect posture for your child:
Make sure you child has her own table and chair for writing purposes (height has to be adjusted as per the child’s height).
Feet has [...]
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