I have previously written about the results achievable with Year 12 students with long standing hand writing problems, preparing for the ordeal of the HSC (ref). With these very motivated students, my specific handwriting training – employing the Cognitive Orientation for Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) paradigm – lead to very good results in between three […]
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Four prerequisites for successful individual psychotherapy
1. The patient’s problem must be internal to them (e.g. unhappiness due to the behaviour of others is an external problem; finding out why we put up with it might lead to understanding of an internal problem). 2. The patient’s problem must be causing them difficulties. 3. The patient must want to deal with […]
Improving handwriting in Senior High School: is it too late?
Come the end of Year 11, I often get calls from concerned parents of students who have been told by their school that their handwriting is illegible. These students have just written their first set of three hour exams, and have been called back to read aloud their exams to their teachers, or lost marks […]