SKILLS Daily Living Skills CPD & Parent Course 
Effective Methods to Teach Daily Living Skills to SEN Learners 0-22 years of age

As autism is a developmental difference, people with autism can often find it difficult to learn and manage everyday tasks, like taking a shower, getting dressed, brushing their teeth and packing their school bag; or daily chores like making their bed, or setting the table.
The online course - How To Teach Daily Living Skills to SEN Learners is aimed at explaining a few effective techniques to use while teaching independence skills, household tasks, vocational skills and self-care to SEN Learners.

View Daily Living Skills Curriculum to see some of the selected IEP goals and skills we are going to work on on this CPD course. 
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Title: Using selected best evidence-based practices to teach Daily Living Skills to SEN Learners.

If:

• you want to find out how a SEN teacher, a mainstream teacher, a special needs assistant, a therapist or a parent can effectively support a SEN learner in acquiring foundational and more advanced skills to help them get ready for pre-school or primary, post-primary or special school
• you want to implement the most effective selected techniques that are both attractive and motivating for your ASD learner to encourage them to collaborate with you, while learning not only school readiness skills, but also the important skills in other inter-related areas, such as: motor skills, receptive and expressive language, social emotional skills and play and leisure skills
• you consider it important to diversify the long-term therapeutic and educational processes and use comprehensive methods to target multiple areas with your child or pupils/clients
• you want to get confidence in how to effectively and correctly modify the activities, techniques and goals by gradual implementation of various elements of evidence-based practices in your work or life with a SEN learner
• you always do your best to adjust the activities and a level of difficulty, based on your learner's unique learning profiles and their individualised needs.

If one or more of those statements applies to you, take part in this meaningful and practical certified online training, during which you will learn how to smoothly implement best solutions that are easy to implement in the classroom, in the clinic and at home.This online training on How To Teach Social Emotional Skills Effectively is divided into 2 forty-minute blocks to allow for the most effective use of the training time while having your questions answered by an expert SEN teacher who is a therapist, an education & behaviour consultant and a mother of an ASD child.

This training is for you if you want to get important knowledge on how to shape your practical teaching skills. Additional questions you may have can be addressed via email, a live chat during the course or during your 1-1 online consultations.

During your online training on Using effective methods to teach Daily Living Skills to ASD Learners, you will find out about:

• Prerequisites to develop Daily Living skills - core skills
• How to skilfully select therapeutic and teaching methods and what are they that will best help in work on Daily Living skills
• How to expand the learner's skills onto a few other related areas while still focusing on Daily Living skills
• How to skilfully apply teaching techniques and select activities to allow for the generalisation of skills
• How to select IEP goals and measure progress
• How to troubleshoot and effectively search workable solutions during your activities with your learner.

Detailed course programme:

• challenging behaviours and its functions
• motivational strategies in the classroom and in 1-1 work
• individualised motivational contracts with pupils
• significance of ongoing attention and approval provided to a pupil throughout the day 
• the significance of proactive activities.

A practical part of each SKILLS course will relate to creating behavioural contracts, motivational systems and proactive activities that are important to effectively teach specific SKILLS in your selected course/s. We will find out how to easier teach specific skills if we have the right system in place in our classroom or at home.

Part 1

• The impact of a neurodevelopmental delay on the development of sensory motor functions, cognition, social emotional learning, language and social communication - why the early childhood stimulation of those areas is crucial in setting up any ASD learner for the best possible success in the school years and in adulthood
• Common deficits in ASD and related neurodevelopmental disorders and how to effectively target those deficits
• Warning signs in the dysfunction of neurological processes that lead to insufficient school readiness that impacts all other areas of development
• How to skilfully select some of the evidence-based practices to address SEL skills and match them to your learner's unique profile.

Part 2

• Stimulation of Daily Living skills development based on implementing selected core and main activities and matching IEP goals and procedures to address the development of those skills
• Examples of IEP goals and selection of best educational and therapeutic strategies to stimulate Daily Living skills in a hierarchical sequence
• Useful activities and suggested materials as supportive components of any quality Daily Living skills lesson / session at home, in school or in the clinic
• Troubleshooting and examples of how to best resolve problems that may arise during a session / lesson
• Collaboration between family home and school / clinic - how to better carry out joint intervention activities to enhance generalisation of skills in a naturalistic setting and in the community
• Selected ready lesson plans from the list below to teach the following skills:

Area: Core
1 Following the Instruction”Come Sit Down”
2 Remaining Seated for a Given Amount of Time

Area: Household/Pre-vocational
3 Cleaning Up Toys
4 Preparing a Snack Following a Schedule
5 Making a Bed
6 Setting the Table
7 Using a Microwave
8 Vacuuming
9 Completing a Chore List
10 Folding Laundry
11 Cleaning a Bedroom Following a Schedule
12 Cleaning a Living Room
13 Cleaning a Designated Area at a Work Site
14 Completing a Work Chore List
15 Completing Office Chores Following a Schedule
16 Cleaning an Office

Area: Self-Care
17 Using Toilet for Urination on a Schedule
18 Washing Hands
19 Using a Spoon
20 Putting On Pullover Shirt
21 Brushing Hair
22 Taking Off Socks
23 Brushing Teeth
24 Using a Fork
25 Using a Napkin
26 Taking Off Shoes
27 Unbuttoning
28 Fine Motor- Clothing Closures
29 Following a Morning Schedule
30 Dressing
31 Tying Shoes
32 Pouring Liquids
33 Cutting Food with Fork and Knife