This week I wanted to tell you about my online store, Good Sensory Learning. I’m Dr. Erica Warren, and I established this site so I could share all the materials that I have created over the last 20+ years as a learning specialist and educational therapist. When I first began my private practice, Learning to Learn, I had great difficulty finding fun and multisensory materials for my students that were effective and engaging. So back in 2005, I made it my mission to design and distribute high-end, remedial products as well as memorable, motivating lessons that bring delight to learning. If you would like to try a free sampling of my activities , CLICK HERE . How Are the Products Organized at Good Sensory Learning? You can download my Free Printable Catalog or you can browse the site using the grey “search all products” bar in the top right of any page with keywords such as dyslexia, working memory, and executive functioning. What’s more, drop down menus in the red banner allow you t...
With the integration of technology into the classroom and limited instructional time, teachers spend less and less time on the teaching of penmanship. In fact, many schools have stopped teaching script altogether. Instead, the instruction and practice time, that was once used to refine printing and cursive skills, have been reallocated to other tasks such as keyboarding. What Are the Long-Term Effects of Limited Instruction on Penmanship? Because young learners are spending less time on penmanship, many students do not fully develop this skill, and their fine motor abilities suffer. Therefore, when they write, they have to think about letter and word formation, leaving little to no room for listening, the formation of ideas or sentence structure. In addition, we are seeing a number of adverse effects across areas of academics: Because student handwriting skills are not fully developed to a degree of automaticity, many students still need to concentrate...