Patents Assigned to Handwriting Without Tears, Inc.
  • Patent number: 7458813
    Abstract: A pre-writing teaching aid and method assists beginning writers in creating letters. The teaching aid includes a tray having a recessed area surrounded by a tray frame. A plurality of cards respectively depict alphanumeric characters, where each of the cards includes a start indicator designating a starting point for forming the depicted character. The students use dough having a consistency that is moldable into strips for forming the alphanumeric characters depicted on the cards in the tray. The teaching aid utilizes multi-sensory teaching methods to make it easy and fun for students to form letters and numbers correctly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Handwriting Without Tears, Inc.
    Inventors: Janice Z. Olsen, Emily Knapton
  • Publication number: 20080280270
    Abstract: A pre-writing teaching aid and method assists beginning writers in creating letters. The teaching aid includes a tray having a recessed area surrounded by a tray frame. A plurality of cards respectively depict alphanumeric characters, where each of the cards includes a start indicator designating a starting point for forming the depicted character. The students use dough having a consistency that is moldable into strips for forming the alphanumeric characters depicted on the cards in the tray. The teaching aid utilizes multi-sensory teaching methods to make it easy and fun for students to form letters and numbers correctly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: Handwriting Without Tears, Inc.
    Inventors: Janice Z. Olsen, Emily Knapton
  • Publication number: 20060014133
    Abstract: A pre-writing teaching aid and method assists beginning writers in creating letters. The teaching aid includes a tray having a recessed area surrounded by a tray frame. A plurality of cards respectively depict alphanumeric characters, where each of the cards includes a start indicator designating a starting point for forming the depicted character. The students use dough having a consistency that is moldable into strips for forming the alphanumeric characters depicted on the cards in the tray. The teaching aid utilizes multi-sensory teaching methods to make it easy and fun for students to form letters and numbers correctly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: Handwriting Without Tears, Inc.
    Inventors: Janice Olsen, Emily Knapton
  • Publication number: 20050239038
    Abstract: A pre-writing teaching aid assists beginning writers in creating letters and pre-writing strokes. The teaching aid includes a magnetic-responsive drawing tablet including a housing, a writing surface and structure for displaying an image responsive to magnetic contact on the writing surface. Structure for erasing the image is provided enabling the writing surface to be used over and over. The teaching aid also includes at least four magnetic stamps that are appropriately sized relative to the writing surface and are shaped as big line, little line, big curve and little curve. All of the capital letters in the English alphabet can be formed using these four simple shapes. The resulting assembly provides a fun and effective learning activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Handwriting Without Tears, Inc.
    Inventors: Janice Olsen, Emily Knapton
  • Patent number: 6932613
    Abstract: A pre-writing teaching aid assists beginning writers in creating letters and pre-writing strokes. The teaching aid includes a magnetic-responsive drawing tablet including a housing, a writing surface and structure for displaying an image responsive to magnetic contact on the writing surface. Structure for erasing the image is provided enabling the writing surface to be used over and over. The teaching aid also includes at least four magnetic stamps that are appropriately sized relative to the writing surface and are shaped as big line, little line, big curve and little curve. All of the capital letters in the English alphabet can be formed using these four simple shapes. The resulting assembly provides a fun and effective learning activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Handwriting Without Tears, Inc.
    Inventors: Janice Z. Olsen, Emily Knapton
  • Publication number: 20040197743
    Abstract: A pre-writing teaching aid assists beginning writers in creating letters and pre-writing strokes. The teaching aid includes a magnetic-responsive drawing tablet including a housing, a writing surface and structure for displaying an image responsive to magnetic contact on the writing surface. Structure for erasing the image is provided enabling the writing surface to be used over and over. The teaching aid also includes at least four magnetic stamps that are appropriately sized relative to the writing surface and are shaped as big line, little line, big curve and little curve. All of the capital letters in the English alphabet can be formed using these four simple shapes. The resulting assembly provides a fun and effective learning activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: Handwriting Without Tears, Inc.
    Inventors: Janice Z. Olsen, Emily Knapton