ONLINE PD COURSE
The Dysgraphia Blueprint for OTs
Break free from the motor trap. Get the complete assessment-to-intervention system for dysgraphia — so you know exactly what's breaking down, what to treat first, and how to defend every recommendation.
6 modules
27 bite-sized lessons (5–20 min each)
6 hours of video
workbook and implementation tasks
certificate of completion (6 hours)
school, outpatient, and community settings
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Handwriting is the #1 reason you get the referral.
So why does it feel like the hardest thing to get results with?
98% of school-based OT practitioners say handwriting is the most common reason teachers request their services (Collmer, 2020). It's the core of our caseloads.
Yet most of us walked out of OT school with fine motor, visual-motor, and a stack of tracing sheets. Nobody taught us the orthographic loop. Nobody explained why a student can ace the Beery and still be unable to write a sentence.
So you end up here:
⚡ Three students hand you samples that look almost the same — messy, effortful, hard to read. You know something's wrong. You just can't tell what, or whether they need three different plans.
⚡ The fine motor screen came back "within normal limits." You wrote "no OT needed." And something still felt off.
⚡ You've been seeing a student once a week for two years. Grip work, strengthening, copy tasks. The progress notes keep saying "continue current plan."
⚡ The team wants a laptop to "fix it." You know that's not the whole answer, but you're not sure how to push back with evidence.
⚡ The teacher calls it laziness. The parent is in tears over homework. And you're the one expected to have the answer.
This isn't a "you" problem. It's a training gap.
Handwriting is a neurological act, not just a motor one. And until we assess and treat it that way, our students stay stuck.
What if you could see the whole iceberg — not just the pencil grip?
Dysgraphia lives in the brain's orthographic loop: letter memory, motor planning, and working memory, all firing before a single mark hits the page. A breakdown at any point produces the same messy sample. Most assessment only looks at the last step.
Once you can see where the breakdown actually is, everything changes:
✅ Your assessments look deeper and catch the students fine motor screens miss.
✅ Your treatment matches the profile — motor, spatial, linguistic, or mixed.
✅ Your IEP, 504, and insurance documentation becomes defensible.
✅ You stop second-guessing, because your clinical impression connects the data into one coherent story.
That's why we built The Dysgraphia Blueprint for OTs.
It's the complete clinical system for dysgraphia — from the first referral to the final re-evaluation. Built on the research (Berninger, the OTPF-4, CO-OP, top-down vs. bottom-up evidence) and translated into tools you can use with your next student.
This isn't another list of fine motor activities. It's the assessment framework, the intervention sequence, the documentation language, and the collaboration tools, in one place.
Is this course for me?
School-Based OTPs
You're navigating RTI, IEPs, and teams who may not teach handwriting — or think OT only does motor. You want defensible recommendations and a clear role.
Outpatient / Clinic OTPs
You want a clinical system that goes beyond traditional fine motor work, with goals and documentation that support medical necessity.
OTPs in any setting
You see the gap between what students know and what they can write, and you want real tools to close it.
✅ This is for you if... you're an OT or OTA, a new grad or a seasoned clinician, working with preschool through high school, and ready to change how you approach handwriting referrals.
❌ This is NOT for you if... you're looking for a printable activity pack only. The Blueprint is a clinical reasoning system. The printables are a bonus, not the point.
From guesswork to a defensible plan of care
You already have the clinical skills. What's been missing is a system that connects what you see on the page to what's happening underneath, and turns it into a plan you can stand behind.
Before the course
❌ "Fine motor was fine" closes the case
❌ One messy sample, one generic plan
❌ Grip work and tracing sheets, once a week for years
❌ "Improve handwriting" goals
❌ "Just give them a laptop"
❌ Gains stay in the therapy room
After the Dysgraphia Blueprint course
You know fine motor scores don't predict handwriting, and you assess what does
You identify the profile — motor, spatial, linguistic, or mixed — and treat accordingly
Explicit, systematic, top-down instruction, delivered at an intensity that produces gains
Functional, measurable goals tied to real occupation
You know when to remediate, accommodate, or modify, and can explain why
Teachers and families carry over your cues with a 5–10 minute home program
What You'll Get...
Built for a full caseload
Short video lessons. 27+ lessons, over 6 hours of video in total. Most lessons are 5–20 minutes, so you can finish one between sessions or on your lunch break.
The Dysgraphia Blueprint Workbook. Follow along, take notes, and reflect as you go.
Implementation tasks in every module. Each module ends with action items you apply to a real student on your caseload, so the learning shows up in practice right away.
Key takeaways and reference lists. Every module closes with a summary and full citations for continued study.
Two full case studies. A school-based and an outpatient case tie every concept together, from referral to re-evaluation.
Bonus Template Vault. With 25+ checklists, templates, handouts and tracking sheets – so you can save countless hours of research and preparation.
Certificate of completion for 6 hours of professional development.
What participants from similar courses said...
What's Inside The Curriculum
Six modules. One complete clinical system.
Every module ends with an implementation task you complete for a student on your own caseload. By the end, you won't just have watched a course — you'll have taken one real student from referral to plan of care.
Module 1 — Foundations
Understand dysgraphia well enough to recognize it, and explain it, with confidence.
After this module, you'll be able to:
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Help teams and families understand what writing feels like with dysgraphia
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Explain dysgraphia to teachers, parents, and administrators in language that holds up in an IEP meeting
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Spot the red flags at every age, including the students a fine motor screen misses, and recognize when co-occurring conditions are part of the picture
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Tell apart students whose writing looks the same on paper but needs a different plan
🎯 You'll walk away with: A focus student to carry through the course, and a list of the students on your caseload who may have been missed.
Module 2 — Frameworks & Clinical Reasoning
Know which lens to use, when, and how to justify every minute of treatment.
After this module, you'll be able to:
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Frame handwriting as an occupation, so your services are clearly within OT scope
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Pinpoint where a writing task breaks down for a specific student
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Choose your treatment approach based on the evidence, not habit
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Define your role clearly across RTI tiers and practice settings
🎯 You'll walk away with: A clear occupational picture of where your focus student's writing breaks down.
Module 3 — Assessment
Walk into every evaluation knowing what to look for, and walk out with recommendations you can defend.
After this module, you'll be able to:
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Choose the right measures for the question you're actually trying to answer
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See what's breaking down in the process, not just the finished product
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Turn scattered data into one clear, defensible clinical impression
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Write functional, measurable goals that teams and payers accept
🎯 You'll walk away with: A complete assessment approach for your focus student, with a defensible clinical impression and measurable goals.
Module 4 — Intervention
Treat what's actually breaking down, and see progress that lasts.
After this module, you'll be able to:
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Match your intervention to the student's profile instead of defaulting to fine motor work
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Deliver treatment in a way that builds automaticity and independence
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Know when grasp matters, and when to leave it alone
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Make it work whether or not your school uses a handwriting curriculum
🎯 You'll walk away with: An intervention plan matched to your focus student's profile.
Module 5 — Accommodations, Modifications & Assistive Technology
Give students access without giving up on the skill.
After this module, you'll be able to:
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Decide confidently between remediation, accommodation, and modification, and explain why
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Bring in technology without derailing progress
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Know when a student is ready for keyboarding
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Write recommendations and documentation that actually get implemented, for IEP/504 and insurance
🎯 You'll walk away with: Ready-to-use accommodation and assistive technology recommendations for your focus student.
Module 6 — Collaboration, Carryover & Case Studies
Make progress stick beyond the therapy room, and put it all together.
After this module, you'll be able to:
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Coach teachers and families so your strategies carry over into the classroom and home
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Take a student from referral to re-evaluation in both school-based and outpatient settings, modeled through two complete case studies
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Apply the Blueprint across the rest of your caseload with a clear plan
🎯 You'll walk away with: A carryover plan for home and classroom, plus your personal implementation blueprint for the rest of your caseload.
Bonus Module — Neurodiversity-Affirming, Strengths-Based Practice in Dysgraphia
An overarching framework for assessment, goal writing, and intervention
After this bonus module, you'll be able to:
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Apply a strengths-based lens to everything you've learned, without starting over
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Recognize the strengths that can hide a writing gap for years
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Know how to write reports and goals that use a student's strengths as the foundation
🎯 You'll walk away with: A strengths-based evaluation summary and goal for your focus student, ready for the IEP meeting or plan of care.
Bonus Template Vault
The Plug & Play Clinician Vault with 25+ Resources
Skip hours of searching, formatting, and reinventing. These resources are ready to use with your next student, team meeting, or family — including:
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Dysgraphia Assessment Table: Every recommended measure across 6 domains, what it tests, and when to use it
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Handwriting Observation Form: Capture how a student writes, not just what ends up on the page, in a format that drops straight into your report.
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Keyboarding Instruction - The 3-Stage Model: A clear path for introducing keyboarding at the right time, so technology supports writing instead of replacing it.
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Student Self-Awareness Checklist: To help students catch their own errors and build independence.
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Printable Therapy Resources. Session-ready printables you can pull out for your next student, with no prep and no searching.
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Parent & Teacher Email Templates: Ready-to-send messages for sharing results, explaining recommendations, and asking for carryover, so you spend less time writing and more time treating.
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Letter Formation & Sizing Strategy – Treatment Guide: Proven strategies for the formation and sizing issues you see most, ready to use in your next session.
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The 4-Part Home Program (Family Handout): A 5–10 minute daily routine you can hand to families today.
...and much more!
💥 Special Founding Member Offer
Along with the full course, you'll get our AI bonus training + $50 off (code FOUNDER26)
Offer expires Sunday, October 4th @ midnight CT.
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AI & Dysgraphia: Using Technology to Support Writing
Time-Limited Bonus Training
AI is already in your students' classrooms. This 40-minute training shows you how to make it work for students with dysgraphia, not against them.
🎯 Inside this bonus training:
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When AI helps, and when it gets in the way of skill-building
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How to fit AI tools into the IEP, 504, or plan of care
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What to say when families and teams ask, "Is this cheating?"
Plus three classroom case studies, from 4th to 8th grade, showing how teachers use AI the right way, so you can confidently guide the teams you work with.
🏅 Professional Developmental Hours + Reimbursement
Earn a Certificate of Completion for 6 hours of professional development.
(Not AOTA-approved, but many state boards still accept it toward license renewal. Check your state's requirements.)
Many educators and therapists have had our courses reimbursed through their school or district's professional development funds. Handwriting is the #1 reason school-based OTs get referrals, so training that sharpens how you assess and treat it pays off for your students, your team, and your employer.
Meet Kelli
I was an OT for nearly a decade. Then my own daughter was diagnosed.
"When my daughter was in kindergarten, I could spot her artwork on the school walls instantly. The details were vivid and incredible for her age. Yet I couldn't read a word she wrote.
I'd been an OT for years. And I realized how little I actually knew about handwriting beyond fine motor skills. I didn't know what dysgraphia really was. Her school didn't either.
So I threw myself into the research, the training, and the experts. What I found changed how I practice. Many of these students never qualify for OT because their fine motor looks fine. They fall through the cracks between OT, SLP, and the classroom.
We are the professionals best equipped to close that gap. This course is everything I wish I'd had, as an OT and as a mom."
Kelli Fetter, MS, OTR/L
• Certified Handwriting Specialist with advanced training in dysgraphia, dyslexia, executive function, and learning disabilities
• Experience in outpatient pediatrics, schools, and early intervention
• Former adjunct professor of Pediatrics and Kinesiology
• Co-author of one of the first dysgraphia textbooks: "Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, & Dyscalculia in Pediatric Occupational Therapy" (coming in 2027)
• International speaker
• Founder of Handwriting Solutions, LLC
850+ students tutored · 2000+ educators empowered · 500+ therapists trained
What participants from similar courses said...
Still wondering if this is right for you?
You're busy, you're careful with your PD budget, and you want to know exactly what you're getting. Here are straight answers to the questions OT practitioners ask before they join.
You are a teacher, not an OT?
Check out our dysgraphia course for teachers instead.
You're the most qualified professional in the room for this work.
You already know the student. The bright one with brilliant ideas who shuts down the moment a pencil is involved. The one whose screen came back fine, but whose writing tells a different story.
They don't need another year of "continue current plan." They need an OT who can see what's really breaking down, and knows exactly what to do next.
🧭 The Dysgraphia Blueprint gives you that system, from the first referral to the final re-evaluation.
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