Teaching dailing living skills --- was Re: How many parents still...

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There's a really good book that I use with parents to help teach all

those independent living skills. It's called Steps to Independence.

Here's the link:

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Amnesty

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> As an early intervention therapist and private consultant for young

> kids w/ asd's, my view of what kids learn to do has a short time

> line. I'm surprised to learn how much assistance so many children

> still need later on.

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> I am always interested in parents' perspectives to learn what might

> be helpful to add into my work. I would be very interested in

> hearing what your experiences were with EI, school systems, or

> private clinicians to teach your children to be more independent.

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> Has anyone tried a picture schedule to teach routines for daily

> living skills? If so, was it helpful?

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> , did you learn about task analysis (breaking down a skill to

> small parts) and token reinforcement (sticker charts) on your own or

> were you taught by someone? Do you use backward chaining?

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> Cheers,

> Hope

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[Guest guest]

hi Hope

to answer your question we use a picture schedule for routine and it works

well. we been using the same system for about 4 yrs and in time it gets

better for my girl to understand what she has to do and when. our set up is

for the whole day now . i can slip in something new every now and then and

she doesnt care.

her school also uses pictures schedule for routine and had no problems there

either. the whole system works really well if there is a few picture cards

of what the the child likes and you get a better result quicker.

with the independent living the school have a section set aside and they

teach the kids set things. and at home if my girl wants to try something or

do something new i just stand back and watch now and over time she ask for

help.

cheers

Michele

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