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Organizational Skills

Understanding Special Education and Supporting Your Child’s Ability to Learn A few tips for working with your child at home. Organizational Skills. Parents Can: Create a specific time to do homework each day. Provide a quiet, consistent homework location. Have extra supplies.

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Organizational Skills

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  1. Understanding Special Education and Supporting Your Child’s Ability to LearnA few tips for working with your child at home

  2. Organizational Skills Parents Can: • Create a specific time to do homework each day. • Provide a quiet, consistent homework location. • Have extra supplies. • Assist with prioritizing activities. • Use a calendar to make a homework schedule for each week and for longer time periods. • Reward good organizational skills.

  3. Organizational Skills Cont. • Identify a preferred activity to complete after homework is finished • Design routines (homework, packing backpack) • Write lists/reminders • Ensure that your child is prepared for school

  4. What can you do if your child does not want to do homework? There are strategies you can use that are positive and proactive that can prevent problem behavior from arising during homework time. But… YOU need to remember to use them! They only work if they are in place.

  5. Offering Choices • Choices may be the most effective strategy to reduce noncompliant/oppositional behavior • Choices can be offered regarding: • Where to do a task • When • With which materials • How • With whom Everyone likes to have a choice…

  6. High Probability Request Sequence • Identify a set of high probability requests • Identify a set of low probability requests • Deliver the high probability requests (each followed by praise) and then deliver the low probability request

  7. Collaborative Activity • Identify an activity your child does not like to perform or complete • Split the responsibility of the task • Gradually require your child to take on more and more of the task independently Example: Kala had her daughter Faith pick three words from her list of 10 and Kala looked them up in the dictionary for her. The next time, she had Kayla pick 2 words, and the next time, only 1. Over time, Faith did it herself.

  8. Preferred Item as Distractor • Identify a set of preferred items/activities that do not interfere with homework. • Allow your child to access one of the preferred items/activities while doing his/her homework. Examples: Listening to a favorite song, eating/drinking a favorite snack, working in a favorite area, being with a friend.

  9. Sample Token Systems

  10. C O M P U T _ _ I’m working for the…

  11. Plan ahead… • With prior planning, • homework can go from this: • To this: It can be a positive experience and result in academic gains!

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