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Cooking for everybody
This program was developed through the joint collaboration of Educational Services and Students Services
Cooking for Autonomy teaches simple cooking skills using easy and nutritious recipes.
Cooking for Autonomy teaches simple cooking skills using easy and nutritious recipes.
The goal of “Cooking for Autonomy” program is to build and develop autonomous life skills with respect to meal preparation. It’s a functional approach structured into 3 levels. The levels are based on skills that need to be acquired in order to move on to the next level with more challenging skills. The recipes have been created to focus on 1 skill at a time and be nutritionally sound.
The goal of “Cooking for Autonomy” program is to build and develop autonomous life skills with respect to meal preparation. It’s a functional approach structured into 3 levels. The levels are based on skills that need to be acquired in order to move on to the next level with more challenging skills. The recipes have been created to focus on 1 skill at a time and be nutritionally sound.
This approach works because it...
This approach works because it...
- It is one simple approach that can be used with any student regardless of diagnosis or level of functioning
- It is one simple approach that can be used with any student regardless of diagnosis or level of functioning
- It insures student’s skill development and not just exposure to kitchen activities
- It insures student’s skill development and not just exposure to kitchen activities
- It includes simple recipes that develop skills from the simplest skill level possible, and one skill at a time. Most students can do the recipes autonomously from the start to finish
- It includes simple recipes that develop skills from the simplest skill level possible, and one skill at a time. Most students can do the recipes autonomously from the start to finish
- It allows a progression through the skill levels towards more complex recipes (multi-skills and/or multi-steps recipes) once the skills are mastered individually
- It allows a progression through the skill levels towards more complex recipes (multi-skills and/or multi-steps recipes) once the skills are mastered individually
- It includes a wide range of recipes
- It includes a wide range of recipes
Level 1 Skill Recipes
Level 1 Skill Recipes
Focuses on the development of simple/basic high frequency kitchen skills
Focuses on the use of simple hand tools
Uses simple recipes that help develop these skills and independence with these skills
At the end of Level 1, the students will have developed a repertoire of independence in single skills and competency in independently preparing a variety of recipes
Most students will be able to cook these recipes independently
Level 2 Skill Recipes
Level 2 Skill Recipes
Includes the use of a variety of electrical kitchen tools with increased safety concerns
Includes some recipes that use more than 1 skill
Level 3 Skill Recipes
Level 3 Skill Recipes
Consolidates skills learned in Level 1 and 2
Uses a stove and oven
Integrates multiple skills and multiple ingredients in the recipes
Increases the number and complexity of steps to complete the recipes
Increases the number of tools
Increases the problem solving demands
Few students will be able to cook all these recipes independently
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