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Handwriting despite the rise in technology remains a key skill that all children are expected to master. The majority of children who seek support from Hemispheres will present with difficulties in handwriting even if it is not the primary reason why parents seek help. The range of difficulties we see is enormous, from young children who show little interest in fine motor skills, children struggling with pencil grip and letter formation to older children who are struggling to gain speed in their writing or reflect their academic potential in their school work. 

Hemispheres is an innovative company.  To offer our clients a fuller more interesting way of overcome difficulties with handwriting, we developed the Hemispheres Think Write Programme.  This full and interactive programme was developed to offer children the opportunity  to learn all the 'rules' that govern spatial position, size, height and formation for all letters.  The success of the programme in clinic has resulted in its development for use in the classroom to teach cursive writing in Early Years. 

What do parents say:

My son Philip has always struggled with handwriting, and at age eight at the end of year three he was producing very little work and was going down the assessment scales at school. A friend gave us the contact details for Hemispheres and when I took him for his initial assessment it was such a relief when Hemispheres could tell us the reasons why Philip hadn't managed to improve his writing ability for the last three years. The writing exercises were fun and so unlike anything the school had given us to do. We can see a massive difference in our son, he shows less resistance to starting and completing written homework, at school he is producing larger quantities of neater work and his writing style is more fluid and consistent.’ 

Elaine, Parent, Surrey