Will walks to the Train Station

Within  our  weekly  work sessions, we have been targeting module activities that Will and his family have chosen from PLS’s Menu of Activities. Currently, he is working on three different module activities with me in a 1:1 capacity. These modules are:

• Module 3: Preparing, and Consuming Food (from Daily Living Skills)
• Module 6: Safety Awareness (from Daily Living Skills)
• Module 1: Literacy (from Communication, Reflection and Critical Skills).

Will has chosen (with support from PLS, his mum and his support workers) specific areas and places to target when it comes to safety awareness in his day to day life in the community. One of these includes walking from the front door of his home to the train station which takes him to and from work experience placements twice every week with his support workers. He enjoys taking photos, writing stories and keeping record of what he actively does from one day to the next.

​Will is also currently creating a memory and sequencing game which uses the photos we have been taking on our walks together. This focuses on areas and places where he uses specific safety awareness skills and strategies he already has in his repertoire, adding and  adapting new skills and strategies that help target his day to day usage.
 
Here is Will’s story and reflective piece of writing about his walk to the train station using Safety Awareness skills and strategies.

Will at the Computer

Will is 18 years old and he finished Grade 12 last year. 2017 is Will’s first year of life after completing his schooling years. He keeps himself busy and active every day of the week doing many different activities with many different people. On a weekly basis we meet to work together on his module work which Practical Life Skills (PLS) offers and provides. We have currently been working together this way since February this year.

In our last GEMS Monthly News (Edition 1 - June 2017), there was much talk about Will's current work in the Kitchen  - which reflects his Module  3 work in the Daily Living Skills section of PLS'S Menu of Activities. Module 3 in the Daily Living Skills section of PLS'S Menu of Activities targets skills, strategies and routines that encompasses and focuses on 'Preparing and Consuming Food'.

Will not only works on 'Preparing and Consuming Food', he also works on Module 1 within the Communication, Reflection and Critical Skills section which specifically targets a number of literacy components which incorporate: -phonic sound activities, sight word activities, reading comprehension and writing from PLS'S Menu of Activities.
 
Will is such an enthusiastic story teller and photographer that with our supervision, support and scribing he has now completed 3 separate digital stories which he has published, with our assistance, as 3 separate PowerPoint documents over the last 4 months.

Will has chosen (with support from both PLS and his mum) the topics of each of these 3  digital stories. Each one of his digital stories, at this point in time, is about important times/days in his life that are special to him and he wants to cherish and remember these times/days with great fondness.
 
The titles of these 3 digital stories are:

• “My Formal”,
• “My Coomooroo Story” and
• “My Work Day at Rowland”

​Here is Will’s story and reflective piece of writing about one of his published digital stories.​ He enjoys writing and making these stories, and then later making up bingo board activities which specifically concentrate on sight words from  each of his digital stories.
 
This is simply helping him to make meaning in his life and world.

Welcome to our very first edition of GEMS - Good Examples of My Strengths. From time to time PLS will bring you some GEMS from our clients, ordinary people achieving extraordinary things.
 
Will in the Kitchen

We would like to introduce you all to one of PLS’s super keen clients Will. Will is 18 years old and he finished Grade 12 last year. 2017 is Will’s first year of life after completing his schooling years. He keeps himself busy and active every day of the week doing many different activities with many different people.

On a weekly basis we meet with Will to work together on his module work which Practical Life Skills (PLS) offers and provides. We have currently been working together this way since February this year. During our weekly work sessions we work  together  on  Module  3  and  Module  6 within the Daily Living Skills section of PLS’s Menu of Activities. We also work on Module 1 within the Communication, Reflection & Critical Skills section of PLS’s Menu of Activities.