Greetings and salutations,
Today was another day jam packed with work and steady progress. Alicia is nearly finished with her desk project; when finished the centre will have four retrofitted desks at their disposal. The new design of these desks will make instruction and data collection more effective and efficient.
I spent my morning working with a staff member to review, revise, and develop a number of new training and assessment documents. These documents included a PECS and PRT procedure poster for each of the classrooms, an A-B-C chart for use with functional behavior assessments, and a brand new preference assessment worksheet. This collaboration was an excellent example of how the Global Autism Project works to empower existing resources within the centre. Lori, a staff member, and I spent the afternoon conducting a workshop on functional behavior assessments. Again, it was great to work side by side with staff member who had so much knowledge and experience to share with the staff and us.
Casey spent her morning drafting an AACT volunteer questionnaire; this document will be used in the continuous refinement of volunteer roles, duties, expectations, etc. Casey’s afternoon was split across training a staff member in PECS and helping to facilitate the newly created afternoon structured play activities. While giving the staff and students something new to do, these activities aim to provide staff and students with continued opportunities to utilize PECS and PRT.
Our evening was filled with a quick trip to the National Cultural Centre (place where all the souvenirs are sold) where the girls picked up some last minute gifts: wooden spoons, a wooden boar (which was actually a rhino), and jewelry. After this, we had another delicious catered dinner courtesy of a friend of the project. We were joined by a number of volunteers that are also working with the centre.
Tomorrow we will continue to focus on finishing up our works in progress…
Thanks for reading.
Respect,
brad herron
Today was another day jam packed with work and steady progress. Alicia is nearly finished with her desk project; when finished the centre will have four retrofitted desks at their disposal. The new design of these desks will make instruction and data collection more effective and efficient.
I spent my morning working with a staff member to review, revise, and develop a number of new training and assessment documents. These documents included a PECS and PRT procedure poster for each of the classrooms, an A-B-C chart for use with functional behavior assessments, and a brand new preference assessment worksheet. This collaboration was an excellent example of how the Global Autism Project works to empower existing resources within the centre. Lori, a staff member, and I spent the afternoon conducting a workshop on functional behavior assessments. Again, it was great to work side by side with staff member who had so much knowledge and experience to share with the staff and us.
Casey spent her morning drafting an AACT volunteer questionnaire; this document will be used in the continuous refinement of volunteer roles, duties, expectations, etc. Casey’s afternoon was split across training a staff member in PECS and helping to facilitate the newly created afternoon structured play activities. While giving the staff and students something new to do, these activities aim to provide staff and students with continued opportunities to utilize PECS and PRT.
Our evening was filled with a quick trip to the National Cultural Centre (place where all the souvenirs are sold) where the girls picked up some last minute gifts: wooden spoons, a wooden boar (which was actually a rhino), and jewelry. After this, we had another delicious catered dinner courtesy of a friend of the project. We were joined by a number of volunteers that are also working with the centre.
Tomorrow we will continue to focus on finishing up our works in progress…
Thanks for reading.
Respect,
brad herron
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