Handwriting Success Coach

I am a pediatric occupational therapist with 30 years of experience. 20 of those years were working in the schools with students of all grades. For the past 10 years I have been in private practice (ohanaot.com) specializing in sensory processing disorders. Throughout these 3 decades I have learned a tremendous amount about how to help children succeed with handwriting. Sometimes the solutions are simple and overlooked (e.g. the furniture not fitting, or needing a highlighted line to get the letters on the line). Other times there are key developmental problems contributing to their struggle such as weak fingers or their body moves when their head moves due to primitive reflexes not being integrated (which causes a death grip on the pencil). In this coaching program I give you all my secrets to success. These are all solutions that I have found to actually work well over the years and I am so excited to share this with you!

Multi sensory teaching is the key to success with children who have handwriting difficulties.

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I graduated from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo Michigan in 1988 with a BS in Occupational Therapy. Since then I have extensive continuing education in my profession with a specialty certificate with Ayres Sensory Integration.

Mary Kostka is the owner and founder of ‘OHANA Occupational Therapy, LLC. She is a licensed and nationally certified Occupational Therapist with over 30 years of experience. She graduated from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI in 1988. Mary opened her private practice in 2008 to better serve families and to help them thrive in light of the many challenges they are facing. Mary has an advanced specialty certification in Ayres Sensory Integration Therapy and is an Integrated Listening Systems Practitioner. She has advanced training in Autism, ADD/ADHD, Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurodevelopmental, Vision and Feeding Disorders. Mary loves the great outdoors with her wonderful husband and two sons. Her leisure interests include hula, photography, teaching karate and serving as a volunteer in the exchange student program as a Leavenworth Rotarian. What I like best about working for our company: “I love working so closely with parents in an ideal therapy setting that promotes fast results. It is wonderful helping the whole child including working with them in community settings which are often challenging for our families. I love our team of awesome therapists and support staff, we are truly a family. “ Favorite Quote: “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more.”