Friday, May 15, 2009
Curriculum Ideas
I have a new Service Coordinator. In our program, that's the person who writes all of our ISP's (Individual Service Plans). We were looking at some notes that my last Service Coordinator left about a client's ISP. This client was returning to our program after attending a different program for a time and he had an Objective to keep a budget book. He had apparently not been very good at this skill at the other program.
We looked at it and asked, "What part of 'keeping a budget book' can't he do? After talking to him, it was quite apparent that he couldn't transfer numbers from a sales receipt to a budget book because he doesn't know what the numbers represent.
He knows a number is $2.00... he just doesn't know if that is an item amount or the sales tax or what.
Ah Ha! Then there is the skill he needs to work on.
So we started working on the plan. In our plans we write down which applicable curriculum staff might review with a client to help them learn the new skill. It turns out that we didn't have a curriculum piece about sales receipts. So I just finished writing it, and it will be a permanent part of all SNAP Curriculum sets sold in the future.
Which brings me to my point about this blog piece... I am always looking for ideas to include. Every piece in the curriculum was generated by a client need. Do you have a client with an issue that you have wished there was something written somewhere to help staff help the client?
Please, let me know! I will be happy to include it in the curriculum.. or even just give you my thoughts about the issue. Just remember, I make no claims to be an expert in the field of developmental disabilities. I am just a guy who has been working directly with clients for about 17 years now.
We looked at it and asked, "What part of 'keeping a budget book' can't he do? After talking to him, it was quite apparent that he couldn't transfer numbers from a sales receipt to a budget book because he doesn't know what the numbers represent.
He knows a number is $2.00... he just doesn't know if that is an item amount or the sales tax or what.
Ah Ha! Then there is the skill he needs to work on.
So we started working on the plan. In our plans we write down which applicable curriculum staff might review with a client to help them learn the new skill. It turns out that we didn't have a curriculum piece about sales receipts. So I just finished writing it, and it will be a permanent part of all SNAP Curriculum sets sold in the future.
Which brings me to my point about this blog piece... I am always looking for ideas to include. Every piece in the curriculum was generated by a client need. Do you have a client with an issue that you have wished there was something written somewhere to help staff help the client?
Please, let me know! I will be happy to include it in the curriculum.. or even just give you my thoughts about the issue. Just remember, I make no claims to be an expert in the field of developmental disabilities. I am just a guy who has been working directly with clients for about 17 years now.
# posted by John @ 2:57 PM 
