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This short is part of episode 6, Tier 1 Interventions Podcast. Join us for our next live event on April 20, 2024, or the 3rd Saturday of the month (school year - no live events in June, July, and August) https://disabilitylabs.com/courses/tier-1-interventions-workshops?coupon=T1Ipodcast2024 Get 2.5 contact hours. Start for $17 That's true because the nerves start in the brain and go down in your a...

This short is part of episode 6, Tier 1 Interventions Podcast. Join us for our next live event on April 20, 2024, or the 3rd Saturday of the month (school year - no live events in June, July, and August) https://disabilitylabs.com/courses/tier-1-interventions-workshops?coupon=T1Ipodcast2024 Get 2.5 contact hours. Start for $17  Cheri walked us through the complexity of the brain, the body, and the...

This short is part of episode 6, Tier 1 Interventions Podcast. Join us for our next live event on April 20, 2024, or the 3rd Saturday of the month (school year - no live events in June, July, and August) Tier 1 Interventions Workshop Get 2.5 contact hours. Start for $17 It gives you some guidance on thinking spontaneously and having your toolbox. What is happening overall with different activities...

This short is part of episode 6, Tier 1 Interventions Podcast. Join us for our next live event on April 20, 2024, or the 3rd Saturday of the month (school year - no live events in June, July, and August) https://disabilitylabs.com/courses/tier-1-interventions-workshops?coupon=T1Ipodcast2024 Get 2.5 contact hours. Start for $17 It gives you some guidance on thinking spontaneously and having your to...

[00:00:00] It's Cheri from The Writing Glitch Pocket Cast. Yeah, you have missed a few weeks with me because. The holiday brought us a vacation with our daughter, and I followed up with some bronchitis. Oh, well, but you know, such as life. Anyway. We are back in the swing of, uh, sessions. Uh, for people to get their dysgraphia certification.  [00:00:32] At our last event. We had this discussion...

0:02 So if what I'm telling you is overwhelming. 0:09 Let me be your boots on the ground to help you navigate making changes. 0:15 Like I've been sharing with you changes in your classroom to create collaborative environments. 0:27 Ultimately, it's going to improve employee retention. 0:36 It's going to improve classroom management. It's going to improve student scores. 0:50 And that's what we rea...

Bilateral integration, bilateral integration has several different components to it. But one of the things I want you to think about is when you're doing lesson planning, like Orton Gillingham, oh activity is when kids finger-write the letter or the word in the air. If they're only doing that with their dominant hand, they're only making an impression on the opposite side of their body. So, for ex...

0:01 What exercises can you do to help prepare kids for writing? 0:09 I know there's a lot of sensory diets, sensory menus out there. 0:14 And sometimes I think that we as occupational therapists give these things to parents, give these things to teachers, but we don't explain the strategic time to use them. 0:32 We say almost like reactive experience to the bad behavior to have them do this to di...

I was praying about you at 4:50 am.   Here is what I was thinking...  I have this vision.  I have this vision where OTs and teachers work together nationwide.  Scores for reading, writing, and mathematics have improved significantly.  How can we execute this vision? Creating environments in our schools where OTs and teachers are in the classroom together, not pulled out and working in separate roo...

Hey, everybody, this is Cheri Dotterer from The Writing Glitch I have been having such a crazy week. I am currently sitting in my car watching it downpour and I wanted to take this time and stop driving and just talk with you for a few minutes. We have been talking the last couple of weeks on the primitive reflexes. I talked about the ATNR and the STNR and then I talked about the spinal galant and...

It's your Thursday pocket cast from Cheri Dotterer at The Writing Glitch. Today, we will continue to talk about those spinal reflexes that we started talking about on Monday. Today, I will talk about the Spinal Galant and the difference between the Spinal Pereze and the Spinal Galant impacts the lumbar spine. It's the same idea: if you take your finger from the middle of your thoracic spine, swipe...

0:02 Hey, everybody, we're back to Monday again. 0:06 And this week, we're going to talk about two reflexes that impact kids being able to sit on a chair. 0:15 The first one is the spinal pereze. 0:19 It's a lesser-known primitive reflex that impacts your thoracic spine. 0:27 So when those of you who don't know where the thoracic spine is think about your ribs, it's part of your spine that connect...

0:01 Hey everybody, it's Cheri from The Writing Glitch. 0:04 Today we're going to be talking about the symmetric tonic neck reflex, and this reflex will impact kids when they're writing as well. 0:17 So, how do you test for this one in a baby? 0:19 Is you? 0:22 Well, describing it in an older kid is easier than a baby. 0:27 I don't do the babies very often. 0:29 I do the older kids. 0:30 So when I...

0:02 Good morning. It's Cheri from The Writing Glitch with another Pocket Cast. 0:08 Today, I want to talk to you about primitive reflexes and why they are important to writing skills. 0:20 Each day this week, I will share a different one Today. 0:24 I will talk to you about the asymmetric tonic neck reflex. 0:31 The asymmetric tonic neck reflex is abbreviated ATNR. 0:37 So, parents, if you have h...

0:01 Hello, everyone. 0:02 This is Cheri for The Writing Glitch Pocket Cast. 0:08 I was just pondering on my way home last week after my trip to Kentucky to see that wonderful ranch that I visited that's doing dyslexia training over the summer. 0:27 And I was thinking a lot about the placement of our interventions to strategically enhance what we're trying to facilitate with the education. 0:43 An...

WARNING: This Pocket Cast is the audio version of a webinar called An Introduction to Dysgraphia. It is uncut and, therefore, 1.5 hours. How the new dyslexia regulations will impact instructional delivery Inside I share what is happening for the 2023-2024 school year Dyslexia mandates. It includes 1. How literacy programs have evolved, gaps with handwriting curricula and instructional delivery, an...

0:01 Hey, it's Cheri from The Writing Glitch. 0:04 And here is your pocket cast of the day. 0:06 Hey, I need some help in the writing glitch community. 0:11 I posted several images of the book cover for the book that we are producing. 0:19 John and I have written and should be coming out this summer, and I really need your opinion on which book cover is attractive to you. 0:30 So please go in and...

0:01 Good afternoon everybody. 0:03 This is Cheri Dotterer, dysgraphia consultant from The Writing Glitch . 0:10 Today's pocket cast is about symmetrical bilateral immigration. Symmetrical bilateral integration is when both hands do the same thing at the same time. 0:23 And the thing that I think about when I think about is that scene from the karate kid where Mr. Miyagi is going wax on, wax off,...

0:01 Hey, good morning, everyone. 0:02 It is time for today's Pocket Cast for The Writing Glitch 0:07 I'm Cheri Dotterer. 0:09 Today we're going to talk about asymmetrical bilateral integration . 0:16 So, what is asymmetrical bilateral integration? 0:19 It is when one hand is doing one thing, and the other hand is doing another thing, but they need both hands to get the task done. 0:29 One of the...

[00:00:00] One of my students, Teresa. [00:00:04] Shared this message about what she has gained off the fast track. [00:00:10] Cheri's just a wealth of information. I leave here with my head swelled every day. I can't even tell you, I stumbled upon Cheri. I had her book and then we connected one day and I had her on, it was supposed to be 15 minutes. We were on together for 45 minutes and it's it'...

0:01 Hey, everybody. 0:02 This is Cheri Dotterer from The Writing Glitch. 0:04 Here is your pocket cast episode of the day today. 0:10 I want to talk to you a little bit about sequencing. 0:13 Have you ever been looking at a student and looking at their sequencing for their alphabet? 0:18 They can start at the letter A and they get so far along. 0:22 Some kids stop. 0:23 Some kids can get through...

0:01 Hey, it's Cheri, your dysgraphia consultant. 0:05 I am here for your Monday edition pocket cast. 0:10 Today, we're going to talk a little bit about visual perception. 0:14 So I want you to imagine you're in your classroom now. 0:19 Close your eyes. 0:21 What do you see? 0:25 Can you tell me what's on the front wall next to the chalkboard, whiteboard, or smartboard? 0:35 How about over to your...

0:01 Hey, it's sherrCheri with today's pocket cast. 0:05 I had hit the panic button this morning, so I was on the treadmill doing my morning walk, and the cat was on the chair that's near that treadmill, and he's chasing this fly, and I'm watching him, and I'm going, I better get a hold of that, that emergency switch just in case something happens. 0:34 And lo and behold, doesn't the cat lose his...

Hey everybody. 0:02 Cheri Dotterer from The Writing Glitch 0:04 Here is today's pocket cast. 0:09 #Stopthewritingpandemic. 0:13 I want to start using this #stopthewritingpandemic because I believe that writing is a pandemic that we need to get out to the world. 0:28 We need to create a movement, and this movement is #stopthewritingpandemic. 0:35 Are you with me? 0:36 Are you willing to share #Stop...