How will it help Hope?
This strategy provides a tangible learning experience that uses social context, to allow a student learn about social norms. It provides Hope with immediate feedback, which allows her to realize and remember when something is not appropriate. It’s an interactive problem solving technique that can be used to make her more conscious about her actions
What is a Lunch Bunch? …show more content…
The lunch box is a peer-mediated support strategy that creates connections between a student with intellectually disabilities and typically developing peers.
This intervention consists of a group of students without disabilities meeting and conversing with a child with disabilities during lunchtime. In this meeting, students create a forum where issues are discussed. The typically developing peers are trained in different social skills, highlighting the skills the student with disabilities may be lacking in. Social skills are then modeled and role-played by the typically developing students. The teacher typically mediates the first part of the meeting and then steps back and observes the proceeding— letting the students direct the course of the
meeting.
How will it help Hope?
This intervention will assist Hope because it will provide supportive arrangement to model age appropriate behaviors through a population preteens find very influential—their peers. Interacting and engaging with Hope creates opportunities for her peers to change their attitudes about children with disabilities. This intervention has been shown to support the social interactions and skills of a child with disabilities when engaging with their peers. It is also very flexible in that it can be implemented in a variety of learning environments.
What are Self Management Strategies?
Self-management strategies are a series of techniques that emphasize increasing self-awareness to modify behaviors and achieve appropriate interactions. These strategies include self-tracking and self-compensating. In this strategy, a child tracks their behavior throughout the day and when they engage in a predetermined appropriate or inappropriate behavior they record it using a suitable tool, such as a marking on a paper, giving themselves a sticker, or putting a penny in a jar. They are then rewarded for these behaviors at a given time. How will it Help hope?
Self Management Strategies will influence Hope to be more conscious about her interactions with peers. She will be able to remember what actions are appropriate, without having to be prompted because she will have been trained to be more self aware of certain behaviors that are appropriate for her age.