Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Curriculum
Over the years I have been occasionally asked if the SNAP Curriculum comes with lesson plans and activities. No, it doesn't. It isn't an academic curriculum. Someone recently described it as a conversational curriculum and I think that's a good description. It's a tool to help staff engage your adult clients in a discussion of over 200 daily living skills topics.
It also does not come with any data collection tools. Success will be determined within your Individual Service Plan Criteria.
As your staff and clients are engaged in whatever daily activities you already do, this material gives staff a way to engage your clients. For example... if you are out shopping, would your staff actually take the time to talk about what kinds of stores carry whatever you're looking for? How about having an idea ahead of time about what an item may cost? How would you figure that out? Or sales tax. How about discussing comparison shopping? Or even completing a purchase and how to read a receipt.
These are all topics within the curriculum. Each topic is short and gives your staff an idea of how to talk about these issues with an adult with a developmental disability.
There are a myriad of topics that also apply to shopping. How will you get there? What are the store hours and how would you find out before going shopping? How will you handle a large crowd... especially during the busy holiday shopping time? What if you got separated from your group while out shopping? How would you handle that? What if you discover that you don't have enough money with you to purchase an item? Can you deal with those emotions?
It's easy for staff to just lead clients on a shopping excursion without talking about these daily living skills topics, but what better time than when you are engaged in the activity?
And speaking of busy holiday shopping - Happy Holidays!
It also does not come with any data collection tools. Success will be determined within your Individual Service Plan Criteria.
As your staff and clients are engaged in whatever daily activities you already do, this material gives staff a way to engage your clients. For example... if you are out shopping, would your staff actually take the time to talk about what kinds of stores carry whatever you're looking for? How about having an idea ahead of time about what an item may cost? How would you figure that out? Or sales tax. How about discussing comparison shopping? Or even completing a purchase and how to read a receipt.
These are all topics within the curriculum. Each topic is short and gives your staff an idea of how to talk about these issues with an adult with a developmental disability.
There are a myriad of topics that also apply to shopping. How will you get there? What are the store hours and how would you find out before going shopping? How will you handle a large crowd... especially during the busy holiday shopping time? What if you got separated from your group while out shopping? How would you handle that? What if you discover that you don't have enough money with you to purchase an item? Can you deal with those emotions?
It's easy for staff to just lead clients on a shopping excursion without talking about these daily living skills topics, but what better time than when you are engaged in the activity?
And speaking of busy holiday shopping - Happy Holidays!
# posted by John @ 1:39 PM 
