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Earn Handwriting CEUs online and refine your graphomotor intervention skills for pediatric practice.

Writing depends on foundational motor and visual skills that influence both academic participation and self-esteem. Theramoves’ handwriting CEU courses provide occupational therapists with practical, research-informed strategies to assess graphomotor challenges and deliver targeted, effective intervention.

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A child’s mastery of writing represents the culmination of so many crucial developmental skills: fine motor dexterity and coordination, visual processing, and visual motor coordination, to name a few. The skills underlying good writing ability are crucial to functioning in so many different areas, not merely graphomotor success; children with dysgraphia are likely to struggle in other areas as well. 

Moreover, around half of the average school day revolves around writing. Graphomotor skills become closely tied to an overall sense of academic achievement. Difficulties in graphomotor control can significantly affect a student’s self-esteem and social status.

Given the importance of successful graphomotor achievement and its impact on development and educational success, Theramoves’ handwriting continuing education courses, led by top presenters in the field, are extremely beneficial in providing effective ways for graphomotor intervention. CEU courses on handwriting for pediatrics highlight the signs of graphomotor delay, identify the underlying cause of the child’s graphomotor difficulties, and provide targeted graphomotor intervention strategies to ensure each child’s mastery of graphomotor control and the underlying contributing foundational skills.

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Upcoming Handwriting Courses for Occupational Therapists

Explore our upcoming graphomotor intervention CEU courses—available online, in live webinars, and in person—to strengthen your skills in OT handwriting interventions.

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What are graphomotor skills?

Graphomotor skills, more commonly understood as the skills needed for writing, are a crucial part of both the developmental and educational process. Beginning with a baby’s first artistic attempts at scribbling, sweaty palms fully encircling a marker slowly morph into a more refined grasp; imitating basic shapes leads the way to letter formation; and rudimentary sentences transform into effortless writing of paragraphs. Yet for so many children, this developmental sequence does not unfold naturally or smoothly; an estimated 10 to 30% of children struggle with graphomotor delays.

While writing may seem like a deceptively simple task, there are many underlying foundational skills required:

  1. Sufficient fine motor skills are required to control the pencil. 
  2. Visual motor coordination is required for the hand to replicate what the eye sees and to remain within the provided boundaries. 
  3. Visual perceptual abilities play a crucial role as well. A child needs to be able to hold a visual representation of the letter or word in mind. 
  4. Good motor planning is also required to execute a writing task.

A deficit in any of the aforementioned skills can result in a child having difficulty writing. The DSM-5 lists the term dysgraphia under learning disabilities, describing those with difficulty in writing performance who fail to meet grade-level expectations.


Handwriting continuing education courses are suitable for:

  • Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapist Assistants
  • Special Education Providers
  • Regular Education Providers
Theramoves offers accredited handwriting training for therapists and professionals.

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Graphomotor Intervention CEU Courses FAQS

Professionals working with pediatric clients would benefit from learning to recognize and assist a child who struggles with graphomotor skills. Specifically in the field of occupational therapy, continuing education on children’s handwriting skills can be very beneficial. Handwriting CEUs for OTs provides the underlying causes and strategies to help improve fine motor skills in graphomotor control. 

Even for those professionals who do not work on graphomotor exercises and activities directly, it is beneficial to recognize the underlying causes of a child’s difficulty with handwriting skills to understand its impact on other areas.

Furthermore, there are a variety of comorbidities that often overlap with dysgraphia, namely dyslexia, ADHD, language impairments, and autism; techniques learned in these courses can be used to help many across the spectrum of the pediatric population. Theramoves also offers ADHD continuing education courses

Being that we live in a digital age, some may advocate doing away with writing in its entirety and relying on computer keyboards instead. However, research shows many benefits to the development of the brain that come about through writing the old-fashioned way.

Additionally, by ignoring the problem of those who struggle with writing, we are turning a blind eye to the many crucial underlying skills contributing to graphomotor success.

By failing to address graphomotor delays, we may fail to address fine motor deficits, visual processing struggles such as poor visual memory, spatial understanding, and directionality, and delays in eye-hand coordination, all of which play a critical role in independence in various daily tasks.

Below are some symptoms that indicate the child will benefit from graphomotor intervention:

  • Illegible or messy handwriting
  • Using excessive pressure or too little pressure when writing
  • Difficulty with sizing or adhering to the given writing line
  • Letter reversals
  • Difficulty recalling how to form letters
  • Slow, laborious writing
  • Poor pencil grasp
  • Poor spacing when writing – crowding letters or spacing them too far apart
  • The student appears lazy, unmotivated, and dislikes school

 In a handwriting interventions OT course you will learn:

  • To recognize the underlying cause of difficulty with handwriting
  • Techniques to strengthen fine motor skills needed for writing
  • Techniques to build visual perceptual skills and spatial understanding associated with graphomotor tasks
  • Techniques to improve visual memory necessary for letter/word recall
  • How to address delays in motor planning in regard to writing
  • A variety of sensory modalities that can be used to teach graphomotor skills
  • Practical graphomotor tools & treatment ideas that can be incorporated both in the classroom and in individualized therapy sessions

  • After your course order is placed, you will receive a Thank you email with FAQs that will include all the information for the upcoming OT handwriting interventions course. 
  • You will also receive a payment receipt via email. 
  • 2-4 days prior to the live webinar you will receive an email from Theramoves which will contain a link for the platform the course will be using such as “Go To Webinar” to complete the registration process, please go ahead and complete that. 
  • The email will also contain the course PowerPoint and any additional handouts that will be used in the handwriting continuing education course.

  • Once you register with our online platform (Go To Webinar) you will receive a link to “Join the Webinar”. This link comes again an hour before the webinar.  
  • Join the course at the designated date and time.
  • We ask that you join 10-15 minutes prior to ensure proper access and avert any technical issues, then go ahead and make coffee :)

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  • For CEU purposes, our system automatically logs your attendance when you sign in for a webinar and log out. (If you have technical difficulties and have to sign back on, do not panic! The system recognizes that).  
  • At the end of the webinar, an email is sent out with the post-course quiz/course evaluation and learning outcome measure on the material presented.
  • Please check your spam/promotions folders as it may inadvertently end up there.
  • Congratulations! Score a 70% or higher on our graphomotor skills certification training and receive your certificate of completion via email.

A full refund of less than $75 dollars administrative fee per course will be given for cancellations received up to 3 days before the course. After that, no refunds will be given for cancellations unless a replacement participant is registered.

Begin Handwriting Continuing Education Today with Theramoves

Taking online courses on graphomotor skills is a convenient way to better understand the causes of graphomotor delays. You will learn new and varied activities and treatment approaches for graphomotor intervention, all of which can be customized to suit every child’s unique challenges and needs. Whether you are looking to gain occupational therapy CEUs on handwriting or from any other field, graphomotor intervention courses will equip you with useful skills when it comes to children’s graphomotor difficulties. You can enroll in Theramoves’ continuing education handwriting workshops from New York or any state by joining a live or on-demand webinar. For any further questions, feel free to contact Theramoves.

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