Apparatus and system for teaching proper letter sizing and spacing to autistic children and others with deficiencies in the areas of visual processing, motor control and/or sensory processing
AssigneeGreen Bean Products, Inc.
InventorCindy Wilson Bean
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to the area of assistive technology, and specifically discloses an apparatus and method for teaching proper letter sizing and spacing to autistic children and others having deficiencies in the areas of visual processing, motor control and sensory processing, through the use of a novel writing guide and graduated method for using same.
Claims28
A writing guide for teaching proper letter sizing and spacing to autistic children and others with deficiencies in the areas of visual processing, motor control an sensory processing, the writing guide comprising:
- a substantially planar top panel having at least one elongated, horizontally extending aperture formed therein;
- a substantially planar bottom panel operably associated with the substantially planar top panel, and configured to be aligned therewith, in spaced relation thereto;
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- at least one sheet of writable material operably configured for insertion between the top panel and the bottom panel, whereupon insertion of the at least one sheet of writable material between the top panel and the bottom panel, indicia may be inscribed upon the at least one sheet of writable material only in the areas of the at least one sheet of writable material exposed by the at least one aperture in the top panel;
- an intermediate guide panel, operably configured to be disposed between the top panel and the at least one sheet of writable material,
- the intermediate guide panel having formed therein at least one row of apertures extending horizontally across the intermediate guide panel, and positioned so as to be aligned with the at least one elongated, horizontally extending aperture in the top panel, when the intermediate guide panel is disposed between the top panel and the at least one sheet of writable material, and aligned with the top panel.
A method for using a writing guide for teaching proper letter sizing and spacing to autistic children and others with deficiencies in the comprising the steps of:
- providing a substantially planar top panel having at least one elongated, horizontally extending aperture formed therein:
- providing a substantially planar bottom panel operably associated with the substantially planar top panel, and configured to be aligned therewith, in spaced relation thereto;
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- inserting at least one sheet of writable material operably configured for insertion between the top panel and the bottom panel, whereupon insertion of the at least one sheet of writable material between the top panel and the bottom panel, indicia may be inscribed upon the at least one sheet of writable material only in the areas of the at least one sheet of writable material exposed by the at least one aperture in the top panel;
- providing an intermediate guide panel, operably configured to be disposed between the top panel and the at least one sheet of writable material,
- forming on the intermediate guide panel at least one row of apertures extending horizontally across the intermediate guide panel, and positioned so as to be aligned with the at least one elongated, horizontally extending aperture in the top panel, when the intermediate guide panel is disposed between the top panel and the at least one sheet of writable material, and aligned with the top panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.