From STRUGGLE To SUCCESS
Transform writing and math skills using cogntive-science based techniques
Join our FREE Webinar – Math and Writing Interventions included
We’ll teach you 3 interventions to support math while improving kids’
visual-perception, fine motor skills, and sequencing.
Are you struggling to support students with learning challenges like dysgraphia, dyscalculia, or classroom stress?
Without understanding the sensory-motor-memory connection, students can fall behind, and teachers can feel frustrated and overwhelmed.
IMPACT Learning Framework: Your Path to Success
Gain clarity and confidence with a proven system that includes:
INCLUSION
Embrace all learners.
METACOGNTION
Foster self-awareness.
PERSEVERANCE
Build self-determination.
ADAPTABILITY
Tailor interventions flexibly.
CONFIDENCE
Empower students and teachers alike.
TRANSCENDENCE
Achieve long-term success.
Dotterer Educational Consulting provides professional development to develop stress free writing in regular education classrooms using math interventions.
Let your conversation be always filled with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. ~Colossians 4:6
Create a better educational experience in your classroom
Meet Cheri
Classroom Coach
Sensory-Motor Detective
Cheri is an retired occupational therapist experienced in writing challenges, an educational advocate, and a former substitute teacher. She has a passion for enhancing classroom engagement and productivity. She and Jonily Zupancic are the creators of IMPACT Learning, a philosophy that all students can be educated using the same interventions through efficent instructional delivey over time. These same interventions can be used in small group and 1:1 sessions for additional experience and indivisualized instruction. Their course, Miracle Math, offers twelve unique interventions that transcend Kindergarted through higher education mathematics and incorporate writing skills that reduce fear and anxiety in students.
Cheri is the author of the award-winning book Handwriting Brain-Body DisConnect and a contributor to the Routledge International Handbook of Visual Motor Skills, Spelling, and Handwriting. She hosts The Writing Glitch and is co-host of Tier 1 Interventions podcasts. Suffering from dysgraphia, she offers teachers a unique perspective to help students. She has been married to her first husband for over 30 years. They have two adult children and a fur baby.
Aristotle said, “Courage is the first human virtue because it makes all others possible.”
From my heroes, Esther and Mordecai
You were put with the specific children you have been placed with for such a time as this.
Be blessed by your students. Bless them.
AWARENESS
Join the free webinar.
RESOURCES
Select a product that meets your needs.
RESULTS
Watch students engage and grow.
Bring Cheri to your school.
Keynote
Presentations are designed to provide practical writing interventions using math as a facilitation method. She provides multiple adapations that facilitate Inclusion, the I of IMPACT.
Workshop
These 1/2 day or full day events dissect IMPACT and align them with math intervention strategies that improve writing skills. (Inclusion, Metacognition, Perseverance, Adaptability, Confidence, and Transcendence.)
Breakout Session
Presentations are designed to provide practical multidisciplinary instruction using the IMPACT Learning Framework. A deeper dive into interventions is included.
Learn from Cheri in your own home.
Ranked in Amazon’s top 100 for Handwriting Reference and Learning Disability, Handwriting Brain-Body DisConnect helps child development professionals better understand their students who struggle with handwriting.
This groundbreaking book helps them understand how many students suffer daily because they struggle with handwriting.
From Response to Intervention to the Individualized Education Program, this book provides strategies readers can use at a moment’s notice.
Your book is one of the most used resources in my school based practice.
Learning Disabilities Podcast Network
Learning Disabilites Podcast Network is a group of podcasts devoted to helping students with learning disabilites learn by aligning instructional delivery so that they do not feel the stigma of being different.
The Writing Glitch Podcast
The Writing Glitch Podcast is an interview-based podcast that releases episodes weekly on Thursday. Interviews focus on improving writing skills for students in whole classrooms, small groups, and one-on-one situations.
Grab a free download and become a free member of the 3d Learning Lounge. You can post question in the community. Look for answers inside the community or listen for responses on the podcast.
Tier 1 Interventions Podcast
Reinvent the 21st-century classroom using 12 interventions that support gifted and learning support students by focusing on number sense and conceptual knowledge rather than procedures and algorithms. Join co-hosts Jonily Zupancic and Cheri Dotterer on Tuesdays, where they bring you whole classroom Interventions.
Episodes are recorded LIVE on the third Saturday of the month. Podcast episodes are sections of the live event.
Grab your free download and become a member of the 3d Learning Lounge community. You can post questions. Look for answers inside the community and listen for answers on the podcast.
Podcast Shorts
Listen to these short clips from complete episodes.
Free Webinars
IMPACT Wednesday for School Success
Monthly non-academic webinar that reflects on the math lesson taught at Saturday math. Webinars are held Wednesdays evenings at 7 pm Eastern Time, monthly.
Instructors: Jonily and Cheri
Saturday Math
Math lesson taught by Jonily. Look for monthly episodes on Saturday mornings at 9:30 am Eastern Time.
3 interventions for writing and math engagement
Cognitive Science confirms that learning is a journey. Start your journey to understanding our intervention solutions that promote visual perception and sequencing, and create thinking students.
Instructor: Cheri
If I need help, Cheri is always accessible. That is what makes her unique and appreciated.
I found that your course made it easier to explain dysgraphia to others.
I use it in my instruction as an adjunct professor.
Self-Study Courses
All courses are located on disabilitylabs.com.
Courses include neuroscience and cognitive science foundations to writing and mathematics, plus interventions to support students.
Most courses have been recorded with a live audience.
Instructors are Certifed Dysgraphia Specialsts and Certified Achievement Formula Coaches.
Study with Cheri – Live
Group Coaching
We offer group coaching packages with Tier 1 Interventions Workshops and Dotterer Dysgraphia Method. See disabilitylabs.com for details.
Participants are part of a cohort of teachers and occupational therapists advancing their knowledge and understanding of Miracle Math Interventions or Dysgraphia Prevention Programs.
Individualized Coaching
Individualized Coaching is designed to foster collaborative, multi-disciplinary program development in your school that features Miracle Math Interventions or Dysgraphia Prevention Programs.
We recommend a teacher and OT be part of the coaching program to develop a program for your school.
FAQs
How do occupational therapists benefit from the math interventions?
Occupational therapists benefit from math interventions by gaining tools to support students’ fine motor, visual-spatial, and cognitive skills. These interventions help address challenges like number formation, sequencing, problem-solving, and organization, which are essential for math success. By incorporating these strategies, OTs can enhance students’ academic performance, confidence, and overall functional abilities in daily tasks.
Can an occupational therapist join Saturday Math or IMPACT Wednesday?
Absolutely! Saturday Math is designed and focused on amth conceptual knowledge. However, the non-academic connections made during this session are helpful to everyday interventions.
IMPACT Wednesday is an extension of the math concepts to share non-academic, neurosicence, and cognitive science foundations to how students learn the math material.
What does a multidisiplinary team look like?
Multidisciplinary teams consist of teachers and related service providers who collaborate using a workload model to co-teach and support students. However, staffing constraints may make in-person co-teaching challenging. In such cases, collaboration shifts to focused and effective lesson planning discussions, ensuring all team members contribute to meeting student needs.
How do I help students if they are not on my caseload?
Using the multidisciplinary team approach, all students, regardless of disabilty, IEP, or 504 benefit from the expertise of all team members.
What does IMPACT stand for?
IMPACT are the CORE VALUES of Dotterer Educational Consulting. These areas of the theme of all our courses and products.
Human beings have three parts: mind, body, and spirit. IMPACT Learning Framework embodies all parts of the being.
Inclusion
We believe full inclusion is essential for student continuity and success.
Metacognition
We believe student knowledge base must be uncovered before teaching begins.
Perseverance
We believe that students’ curiosity and passion for learning must be ignited daily for academic rigor.
Adaptability
We believe that education is unique for every student, and intervention strategies for each student are universal.
Confidence
We believe that confidence is the core of learning. Every student must be motivated to achieve focus and flow.
Transcendence
We believe that education is the journey of a lifetime. Experiences must be repeated frequently to unleash growth potential.
