In Ontario, regular students are entitled to attend publicly funded schools until eighteen years old. For students with special needs they are given three additional years which means that they can stay in school until they are twenty-one years old.
However, once when these students reach twenty-one years old, they face a bleak and empty future. Incapable of work or independent living, these young adults have nowhere to go and stay home all day. Although the Ontario Government does provide some funding to these special needs adults, many of theses programs have been closed during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Recently, I was asked by parents if I could provide a much needed program to their autistic young adult child. Having known and considered the needs of this particular individual for some time, I designed a 2 hour program consisting of a variety of activities to help her develop the different skills.
I was pleased that the morning went well and my autistic young friend did enjoy the activities and had a good time! Below was the two hour program I designed.
Schedule for a
2 Hour Program
10:00 a.m. Music
- singing to relax and get ready for activities
10: 20 Math & Language - Geometric Shape Puzzle, teach vocabulary on
shapes, colour & number
10: 35 Motor
Skills - Pick Up Beads game
10:50 Life
skills – Prepare a milkshake for a snack
11:10 Physical
Fitness – Walk and collect leaves outdoors
11:20 Art
& Craft – Learn to dry leaves, draw a face & glue leaves as hair on
the drawn face
11:50 Recap
of activities
11:55 Life
Skills - Put away games and clean up
12:00 Lunch
– Walk to neighbourhood plaza and buy lunch
R.T.
Toronto
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