Is there such a thing as a handwriting teacher/tutor?

[Lovecat]

...because DD won't do it for me, so I thought a third party might help!

Despite loads of help from school (Yr 1), she is still holding her pen/pencil in a 'fist' when she writes.

She's right-handed, I'm left, and it seems that it's hard for her to see how to do it properly from the opposite perspective, if that makes any sense whatsoever?

I ask her to hold the pen properly when she's doing homework etc and her complaint is that it's 'too difficult' and it hurts her to hold it like that. She gets very cross and throws the pen down/strops off if I persist, hence my looking for a 3rd party here that she may pay attention to!

Her writing is awful, btw, no control over the pencil at all, which I think is down to her grip.

She's got those rubber things that slide onto the pencil, as recommended by her teacher, but it doesn't seem to have much effect on the way she automatically holds the pencil.

So... is there such a thing as a person who can teach you how to write properly? Or is there something I'm missing re. how to get her to do it?

:)

Strengthening her pincer grip may help, playing with clothes pegs or pipettes can strengthen it.

Op how does she hold her spoon when eating?

Just been brought to my attention that this thread's back from the dead...

DD is now in Yr 3 and the situation is pretty much the same. She was assessed informally by the school and has 'traits' of both dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia, but not enough for a statement to be given. Tbh it's only the maths and her handwriting (and her astonishing disorganisation when left to her own devices) that are an issue, she seems to have found her own way around the reading issues she was having in yr 1/2 and whole word recognition seems to be how she's coping (if she's in a hurry she goes on the 'look' of the word and will often say what she thinks is right rather than the actual word, if I ask her to go along the word and pronounce the letters then she struggles).

She holds her knife like a pen and tries to get away without using one if she can. I haven't noticed how she holds a spoon (by which I suspect she holds it 'normally'), I will watch her at breakfast tomorrow...:)

She still complains that it hurts if she tries to write with her pen in a 'proper' grip and her handwriting is still all over the place.

Hhm joanne that would be a more convincing testimonial if the same expert had not already had posts deleted for advertising and you had more than one post.....