Cheri Dotterer

MS, OTR/L, Dysgraphia Consultant

Cheri Dotterer author of Amazon Bestseller’s book Handwriting Brain-Body DisConnect is an occupational therapist for 25 years and has a private practice. Her specialty is empowering school personnel and parents to master FLAWLESS COURAGE by empowering them to find the FLAWLESS POTENTIAL in themselves and others using dysgraphia awareness as a medium. Dysgraphia awareness helps teachers identify Response to Intervention (RtI) and IEP/504 strategies for team members and incorporate quick solutions for the students.  Cheri and her husband of 29 years have two adult children and a cat. 

Encoding Dysgraphia in the elementary student

“Eight words, are you kidding me, I need to write eight words?” One of my students said that recently. How many of your students go home from school melting down saying, “I can’t do it”?  Encoding DysGraphia changes their paradigm.  Reading, or decoding, is divided into five areas according to the education curriculum for K-12.  These areas are phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary: oral, read, and written, fluency, and comprehension.  Encoding is the study of anything that is put to paper.  It is divided up into the scribbling, prewriting. Letter/shape formation, phonetic, syllabic, and conventional stages.  The goal of handwritten material is legibility and speed. Students with dysgraphia lack both areas.

After completion of the training, the participants will

• Identify the Types and Symptoms of Dysgraphia
• Have strategies about how to document dysgraphia in an IEP /504 plan
• Increase writing legibility & speed to success with fun learning techniques