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At The Attuned SPOT, we started with a simple idea: to make education accessible to everyone.

We believe that education is a fundamental right and should not be limited by financial barriers.

07/07/2025

Struggling to know where to start with writing?

The Attuned2Write checklist is more than just a tool. It’s a guide that helps you identify exactly where your child or student may need more support. From planning and organising ideas to building stronger sentences and expanding thoughts into full paragraphs, the checklist brings clarity to each stage of the writing process.

It allows you to track progress over time, notice patterns, and target the skills that need strengthening. Use it to take the guesswork out of writing support and move forward with purpose and confidence.

02/07/2025

Writing development isn’t something that happens in isolation at school. It’s a process that thrives when parents, teachers, and children work together. When parents understand how writing skills develop, and why each stage matters, they can provide the right support at home.

This doesn’t mean becoming the teacher or rewriting your child’s work for them. It means knowing how to encourage, guide, and scaffold their thinking when they feel stuck. It’s about building their confidence, helping them organise their ideas, and showing them that their words and thoughts have value.

When parents are equipped with the right tools and understanding, they become powerful partners in their child’s learning journey. Support at home doesn’t just build writing skills, it builds resilience, motivation, and the belief that their ideas are worth sharing.

30/06/2025

How can the Attuned2Write framework support my child?

The Attuned2Write framework gives your child a clear, step-by-step path to follow when completing any writing task. Many children struggle with writing because they do not know where to start, how to organise their thoughts, or how to build their ideas into full sentences and paragraphs. This framework breaks the process down into manageable stages that reduce overwhelm and build confidence.

Here’s how it helps:

- Structure and clarity: Your child learns that writing is not one big task. It is a series of small, achievable steps such as preparing ideas, researching, organising, composing, editing, and sharing their work.

- Visual and practical tools: The framework includes checklists, guides, and visual prompts to help your child stay focused and know exactly what to do at each stage.

- Supports thinking and planning: It helps your child organise their thoughts before they write. This is especially helpful for children who find it hard to hold lots of information in their head at once.

- Builds writing stamina: By making the process feel less overwhelming, Attuned2Write helps your child stay engaged from start to finish, even with longer or more complex tasks.

- Flexible for all learners: Whether your child is in primary school or high school, has learning difficulties, is a reluctant writer, or just needs a little more support, the framework adapts to meet their needs.

Why it matters: Strong writing skills build confidence, not just in English class, but across all school subjects and into life after school.

27/06/2025

Because writing isn’t just putting words on a page.
It’s planning, organising, remembering, focusing, spelling, and knowing what sounds right, all at the same time.

For some kids, that’s like juggling with one hand tied behind their back.

That’s why we created Attuned2Write, to break it down, build skills, and help them get their ideas out clearly.

https://www.theattunedspot.com/store/p/attuned2write

25/06/2025

The Hidden Gender Gap in Writing

By Year 9, boys are almost two years behind girls in writing achievement.
This gap starts early and widens over time.
It’s not about ability, it’s about how we teach, support, and engage boys in writing from the start.
At The Attuned Spot, we’re here to help close the gap with strategies that build motivation, confidence, and skill, one sentence at a time.

22/06/2025

When we hand over the hard parts of thinking to AI too soon, we lose more than just effort, we lose memory, agency, and clarity.

Students in a recent study who used AI tools had:
🚫 Less ability to recall what they wrote
🚫 Less sense of ownership over their ideas
🚫 Weaker brain activation in key areas for self-monitoring and planning

That’s why Attuned2Write helps kids build the habits and strategies they need, and integrates AI to support the writing process.

Support tools are great.
But how we use them matters just as much as what we use.

20/06/2025

Writing is a whole-brain task.

It’s not just language. It’s also motor planning, working memory, emotional regulation, and stamina.

At The Attuned Spot, we bring speech and occupational therapy together to support the full process.

That’s why writing support should include:
- visual scaffolds
- executive functioning strategies
- motor adaptations
- sensory regulation tools

Writing confidence grows when support is layered, not rushed.

18/06/2025

What does the writing process actually look like?

Many students are told to “just write", but without a roadmap, it’s easy to feel stuck or lost.
That’s why Attuned2Write breaks the process into clear, teachable stages:

Prepare → Research → Organise → Compose → Edit → Share and Submit

Each stage builds on the one before it. Students learn how to think, plan, and write with structure, instead of pressure.

A visual process helps students see where they are, what’s next, and how to keep moving forward.

Designed by a speech pathologist and occupational therapist
Backed by writing research
Built for parents, teachers and therapists to support writing of students aged 8 to 16

15/06/2025

Explore the Attuned2Write Writing Process
Writing doesn’t start with a sentence. It starts with structure.

At The Attuned Spot, we know how overwhelming writing can feel when students aren’t taught the process behind the product. That’s why we created Attuned2Write.

It’s a step-by-step system that helps students prepare, plan, compose and refine their ideas with clear guidance at every stage. Built by a speech pathologist and an occupational therapist, it blends cognitive, motor and language supports that meet students where they are.

Whether at home, in therapy or in the classroom, Attuned2Write gives students a way in so they can write with confidence, clarity and control.

13/06/2025

This week’s reminder, the small wins matter.
That sentence your student finally finished.
That parent who tried something new.
That moment you paused before reacting.

Progress doesn’t always look impressive. Sometimes it looks like persistence.

Here’s to the quiet wins of the week.

10/06/2025

Think back to your own school days.
Did writing feel clear and structured, or was it something you dreaded?

Now imagine your child – staring at a blank page, unsure how to begin. It’s not just about spelling or neatness. It’s about confidence, planning, and understanding what kind of writing is being asked of them.

Each genre – whether it’s a story, a persuasive piece, or a report – follows a different structure. When kids recognise these patterns, writing becomes less overwhelming and more achievable.

We’re here to support that shift. One purpose, one page, one plan at a time.

02/06/2025

Writing is more than words on a page.

If your child finds writing overwhelming, it's not always about handwriting or spelling.
It could be working memory, attention, planning, or even emotional regulation.

The good news? These skills can be supported, step by step.

With the right tools and guidance, every child can learn to organise their thoughts, manage their emotions, and express themselves clearly.

Attuned2Write breaks writing into manageable stages, helping kids build confidence, not just content.

Start where they are. Support what they need.

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