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A good time to teach your child daily living skills is now!
A good time to teach your child daily living skills is now!
Make it fun by giving them a new and exciting challenge once a week.
Week 1- Clean your room
Week 2- Prepare a meal
Week 3- Do Laundry
Week 4- Wash their own dish
Week 5-Take out the garbage
Week 6- Shop for groceries
All skills can be broken down into several small steps. Please let me know if you have any questions!
Parents can teach their children daily living skills at home by taking the following steps:
Parents can teach their children daily living skills at home by taking the following steps:
- Determining a skill that you want to teach your child
- Breaking down the steps of the skill (Task Analysis)
- Teaching each step of the skill (Prompting)
- Reinforcing the skill (Reward)
- Providing multiple opportunity to practice the skill in various settings.
Begin by determining the prompt necessary to teach the skill and then fade the prompt as soon as possible so that the child is functioning independently
The following is the hierarchy of prompting levels that can be used to help your child acquire a new skill
The following is the hierarchy of prompting levels that can be used to help your child acquire a new skill
A visual support can be helpful to teach a new skill.
A visual support can be helpful to teach a new skill.
Teaching your child to dress independently
Teaching your child to dress independently
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