Get a grip! (For a pencil).

I teach two groups of adults with general learning difficulties and for a while I've been searching for some comfortable triangular pencil grips to use with them. I'd seen some in animal shapes that weren't really adult - appropriate, but my search has just ended.

I found a pack of five for £3 - post free- on the Hemi-Help website. http://www.hemihelp.org.uk/support_us/shop/pencil_grips

Hemi Help helps children and young people with hemiplegia, a condition similar to that of a stroke, which affects one side of the body.



As you can see from the pic above, the design allows the pencil to be touched, but promotes a correct grip. Just what I wanted -and it supports a worthwhile charity too!
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Off we go!

I've set this blog up for future use, really - to show my learners in the next academic year what can be done with blogs, but also to post items of use/points for debate for Functional Skills/Skills for Life Tutors - and anyone else who feels moved to contribute.

I decided to set it up after reading Maggie Harnew's marvellous Skillsworkshop blog - what a great resource Skillsworkshop is! Do any of you out there use Blogs in your teaching I wonder - that's what I plan to do in the future, I've already had some training on this, but not had a chance to really try it yet.

If you've stumbled across this - hello and welcome. Feel free to post a comment!