Write At Home is a central Iowa service founded by Brenda Egger, a licensed and certified Occupational Therapist (OT) with over 14 years of experience.

The mission of Write At Home is to make handwriting tutoring logistically accessible by providing evidence-based handwriting tutoring sessions in the home or virtually.

Write At Home believes in the importance of handwriting because it is a foundational literacy skill that impacts reading, communication, and learning.

Write At Home is able to provide handwriting tutoring that aligns with the child’s current school curriculum, while embedding evidence-based strategies:

  • explicit instruction
  • multi-sensory instruction
  • play-based instruction
  • visual-motor skill development
  • pencil grasp development
  • sensory motor based strategies

Write At Home is a trained instructor in Handwriting Without Tears. Write At Home has instructional experience with the following handwriting programs:

  • Zaner-Bloser Handwriting
  • Size Matters Handwriting Program
  • First Strokes Multi-Sensory Program
  • Fundations
  • Iowa Reading Research Center LIFTER (Letter Identification and Formation for Transcription and Early Reading)