At Write Sensations LLC, our occupational therapy and handwriting instruction services are rooted in evidence-based practices that are proven to support children's development in meaningful, functional ways. We combine the latest research with creative, hands-on approaches to meet each child where they are. Our interventions are carefully chosen to build foundational skills in a way that is engaging, effective, and personalized for every child.
Sensory Integration
Based on the work of Dr. A. Jean Ayres. Sensory Integration Therapy focuses on improving the brain’s ability to process and organize sensory information from the environment and the body. Through controlled, play-based activities that provide vestibular, proprioceptive, tactile, and visual input, therapy helps enhance a child's sensory processing capabilities. Improved sensory integration often leads to better attention, emotional regulation, motor planning, postural control, and functional participation across settings.
Strength and Postural Stability
Strength and postural stability are foundational components of motor development and functional performance in children. From a biomechanical perspective, strength refers to the ability of muscles to exert force, while postural stability involves maintaining control over the body's center of gravity during both static and dynamic activities.
Efficient postural control relies on the coordinated engagement of core musculature, including the abdominal, back, pelvic, and shoulder girdle muscles. Adequate strength and endurance in these muscle groups are critical for providing proximal stability, which supports distal precision—essential for fine motor tasks such as handwriting, cutting, and self-feeding. Deficits in strength or stability can result in poor endurance, compensatory movement patterns, decreased coordination, and challenges with sustained attention to tabletop tasks.
Fine Motor and Hand Skill Development
Fine motor skills refer to the coordination of the small muscles in the hands and fingers that are essential for everyday tasks. These skills include hand strength, dexterity, grasping, in-hand manipulation, bilateral coordination, and finger isolation. They are critical for activities such as writing, using scissors, dressing, feeding, and managing school tools.
Well-developed fine motor skills support independence, academic readiness, and self-care abilities. When children struggle with fine motor tasks, they may have difficulty keeping up with peers in school or managing daily routines. Early identification and support can promote stronger motor planning, endurance, and coordination.
Visual Perception
Visual perception refers to the brain’s ability to interpret and make sense of visual information received through the eyes. Strong visual perceptual skills are essential for academic tasks such as reading, writing, copying from the board, and participating in activities that require spatial awareness and motor coordination.
Occupational therapy intervention targets specific visual perceptual areas including visual discrimination, visual memory, visual-spatial relationships, visual-motor integration, figure-ground perception, and visual closure. Deficits in these areas can contribute to difficulties with handwriting, reading fluency, letter reversals, organizational skills, and participation in daily activities. Therapy utilizes structured, developmentally appropriate activities to improve a child's ability to process, interpret, and respond to visual information, thereby enhancing functional performance across home, school, and community environments.
Visual Motor Integration
Visual Motor Integration (VMI) is the coordinated control of visual perceptual skills and fine motor movements. It involves the brain’s ability to process visual information and then direct the hands to perform precise, goal-directed movements. Visual motor integration is critical for activities such as handwriting, drawing, cutting, copying from the board, and completing puzzles or mazes.
Occupational therapy addresses VMI by strengthening the connection between visual input and motor output. Deficits in VMI can lead to challenges with letter formation, spacing, copying accuracy, and overall academic performance. Intervention focuses on enhancing visual tracking, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, and fine motor control through developmentally appropriate, engaging activities. Improved visual motor integration supports greater independence and success in school tasks, self-care activities, and play.
Bal-A-Vis-X
Bal-A-Vis-X (Balance, Auditory, Vision exercises) is a series of carefully structured exercises designed to improve balance, auditory processing, visual tracking, coordination, and attention. Rooted in principles of sensory integration, neuromotor development, and rhythm-based learning, Bal-A-Vis-X uses tools such as beanbags and racquetballs to promote synchronized movement patterns across the midline of the body.
These exercises are performed rhythmically and often in sequences that require timing, tracking, and focused attention. The repetitive, patterned nature of Bal-A-Vis-X activities enhances brain-body connectivity, supports bilateral coordination, improves postural control, and strengthens the integration of sensory input necessary for learning and functional motor skills. It is particularly beneficial for children with challenges related to sensory processing, attention deficits, learning disabilities, and motor planning difficulties.
Handwriting Without Tears
Handwriting Without Tears® (HWT) is a research-based handwriting curriculum developed to promote efficient, legible handwriting through developmentally appropriate, multisensory instruction. The program addresses all aspects of handwriting development, including posture, pencil grasp, letter formation, spacing, and writing fluency, using a simple, structured approach that minimizes frustration.
HWT follows a developmental teaching sequence, beginning with capital letters, progressing to lowercase, and advancing to words and sentences. Instruction is supported through a variety of multisensory tools that engage multiple learning pathways (visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic).
Zones of Regualtion
The Zones of Regulation is a framework designed to help children recognize, understand, and manage their emotions and states of alertness. Understanding and identifying emotions is the first step toward managing them. The Zones framework helps children become more self-aware, improves emotional vocabulary, and supports the development of coping strategies.
At Write Sensations LLC, we incorporate the Zones of Regulation into our sensory interventions in order for children to:
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Recognize their current emotional state
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Learn tools to shift between zones as needed
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Develop self-control and problem-solving skills
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Create personalized regulation toolkits
Through fun, visual, and movement-based activities, kids build the foundation for lifelong self-regulation in the home, school, and social settings.
