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Activities for Adults with Learning Disabilities: Having Fun, Meeting Needs
This valuable resource for people working with adults with learning disabilities provides over 60 sessions of fun and engaging activities that aim to entertain and stimulate the minds of people with learning disabilities. The sessions are divided into different types of activity including cookery, arts and crafts, drama and dance, and outside events. A comprehensive collection of varied and enjoyable activities, this practical book also contains useful tips to ensure that sessions run smoothly. All the activities are tried and tested by experienced practitioners and include a key advising the level of help required, wheelchair user suitability and any related health and safety issues involved. Ideal for use in social clubs or residential homes, this is an essential resource for professionals and volunteers working with adults with learning disabilities.
160 pages, Paperback
First published July 15, 2009
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August 5, 2011
how do you use this book?
well chances are you don't... I do.
it's fun I actually think that it is less important to use these tasks then to learn from the book how to reunderstand tasks for the kinds of classes I teach. I want to play volleyball, people have mobility issues so we set up tables instead of a net. We want to have ring toss, but can't make it work, so we take bean bags and throw them at boxes, we say things like okay lets throw really really hard, and when it still doesn't make it the staff hits an assist. what this book is mostly about is how to do what you want no matter who you are doing it with. I know that's tough to understand without being in the position of standing in front of a class and thinking OMG what can we all do together, this book is like case examples in how that thought process works, and I really really like it.
well chances are you don't... I do.
it's fun I actually think that it is less important to use these tasks then to learn from the book how to reunderstand tasks for the kinds of classes I teach. I want to play volleyball, people have mobility issues so we set up tables instead of a net. We want to have ring toss, but can't make it work, so we take bean bags and throw them at boxes, we say things like okay lets throw really really hard, and when it still doesn't make it the staff hits an assist. what this book is mostly about is how to do what you want no matter who you are doing it with. I know that's tough to understand without being in the position of standing in front of a class and thinking OMG what can we all do together, this book is like case examples in how that thought process works, and I really really like it.
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