Learning
Life Skills is SO Important!
This
task focuses on using functional daily living skills to enhance understanding
and retention. Students gather a bag of groceries from an assigned area and
take it to a kitchen setting. They then sort the objects onto two shelves, one labeled
cans and one labeled boxes. The student knows to continue until all groceries
are put away and the bag is empty.
This
is a good activity for students with goals regarding the gathering of materials;
moving between areas; following a sequence to complete an activity independently
and sorting from a field of two.
Once
mastered in a structured setting a student may move on to the next step of
helping unpack and put away groceries after a trip to the community store.
Remember it is very important to generalize skills across settings whenever
possible. For example, students begin by learning these skills in a classroom
setting then generalizing to home and then to similar tasks in a work
situation.
If
you have further interest in structured daily living skills for your students, please
be sure to check out our book Tasks Galore for the Real World .
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