The Schedule Board
My special child was classified under the "vocational" class at Resources for the Blind (RBI), since it was the first time we enrolled her in a school for the disabled, specifically for visually impaired children.
Her first day of classes was beyond my expectation because of the "mature" approach to training blind children. What I meant by that was I think the children were immediately introduced to a mature and responsible lifestyle by immediately introducing the "schedule board" and follow the scheduled activities.
In my mind, I was saying if only we were taught the same way when we started in school, dreaming big would be easier as we grow up because of the discipline in time we got used to.
I made another version of the schedule board that my special child can follow at home. It has dividers to separate one task from another and task symbols like spoons for snack time, cassette tape for music time, and I used as symbol for massage or leisure time the actual comb gadget I use on my special child. In school, the schedule usually starts with "circle time" with other children, followed in any order by art time, snack time, leisure time, music time, and ended with a quiet time then bye-bye time. When one task is finished, we sing the "finished" song and ask the child to put the symbol in a "finished tray" at the right of the board.
At the start of the class, the child would already know the schedule since she has to review the whole schedule board by touching the symbols in the right order they will be performed. Isn't that awesome?
Her first day of classes was beyond my expectation because of the "mature" approach to training blind children. What I meant by that was I think the children were immediately introduced to a mature and responsible lifestyle by immediately introducing the "schedule board" and follow the scheduled activities.
In my mind, I was saying if only we were taught the same way when we started in school, dreaming big would be easier as we grow up because of the discipline in time we got used to.
I made another version of the schedule board that my special child can follow at home. It has dividers to separate one task from another and task symbols like spoons for snack time, cassette tape for music time, and I used as symbol for massage or leisure time the actual comb gadget I use on my special child. In school, the schedule usually starts with "circle time" with other children, followed in any order by art time, snack time, leisure time, music time, and ended with a quiet time then bye-bye time. When one task is finished, we sing the "finished" song and ask the child to put the symbol in a "finished tray" at the right of the board.
At the start of the class, the child would already know the schedule since she has to review the whole schedule board by touching the symbols in the right order they will be performed. Isn't that awesome?
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