Making Adaptations
As you viewed the video, Inclusion, you heard the teachers discuss strategies that they use when working with children with disabilities. You also saw examples of adaptations they used to fully include all the children. When you reviewed the CARA’s Kit handout you learned about the continuum of approaches for providing adaptations to include children. These strategies, starting from the least restrictive approach to more restrictive approaches. The steps on the continuum included adaptations to the environment, activity, materials, instruction or assistance.
In my father-in-law’s final years, he lived with Parkinson’s disease. This disease affects motor skills. Over the years he used many materials to help him manage his life. He used a cane and later a wheel chair. He used a grab stick to help him pick up items from the floor. He used a special tool to help him pull on his socks. These are examples of materials that he used to assist in his daily living.
This post has three parts.
Select two adaptations you observed in the video and answer the following questions for each adaptation:
Describe the adaptation you observed.
Identify if the adaptation was for environment, activity, materials, instruction or assistance.
Think about adaptations you have observed in schools, in your family or in your own life. Describe those adaptations and identify the level on the CARA’s Kit continuum
