Archive for the ‘Vocational’ Category
Prerequisite Vocational Skills
I know as a teacher, especially if you teach middle and high school students, you are always thinking of the skills our students will need in order to attain a job after high school. You are always careful to incorporate the prequisite vocational skills into every day.
Our students with autism have unique...
September 13th, 2008 | Teachers, Vocational | Read More
More Vocational Skills
Writing checks. Do you remember learning how to write checks in school? To be honest, I do not remember just who taught me how to write checks? Did I learn it in school or was it just one of those skills that we learn through osmosis – just indirectly through living life and watching others? Well,...
August 19th, 2008 | Teachers, Vocational | Read More
Vocational Skills
There are so many skills that our students need to learn: Job skills, Social skills, Independent Living skills, etc. Our students with Autism need so much practice in a slow methodical way in order to have the ability to generalize and use those skills later in life. They need these skills and many of...
August 19th, 2008 | Teachers, Vocational | Read More
Teaching Telephone Skills
Let’s talk about teaching functional skills for a minute. You know how hard it is to teach kids to use a telephone when you don’t have a telephone in the class? And are you really going to traipse down to the teacher’s lounge with all of your students in tow to demonstrate telephone...
August 9th, 2008 | Teachers, Vocational | Read More
Vocational Work Tasks
This was a great example of a vocational work schedule. Don’t assume that the students understand what “get ready to work” means. A task needs to be broken into small steps (task analyzed) and a visual given to enhance undertanding. See how it is enlarged to a poster size and placed...
July 31st, 2008 | Teachers, Vocational | Read More
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