Lesson ADT 111
Task: Hang pants or dress on a hanger.
Prerequisites: ADT 1, ADT 3, SEN 12, SEN 13
Concept: This skill is an extension of the previous task of "hang a shirt on a hanger" (ADT 110), but that skill is not a prerequisite because sometimes this is an easier task to master. Neatness is not the intended outcome as much as independence. The training can be combined with similar lessons such as "fold clothes" (ADT 108) or even "use a clothes dryer" (ADT 116).
Behavioral Objective: When requested to "please hang up these clothes," the student will arrange a pair of pants or a dress, place it on a hanger in a manner that it stays on, and then place the hanger with clothing on a rack to a 90% accuracy level for 20 consecutive trials.
Materials: Hangers (preferably the thicker plastic kind) and clothing of similar size and type to that of the student's.
Task Analysis:
1. Demonstrate the entire process to be performed to the student.
2. Assist the student in arranging the clothing in a manner that prepares it to be bung. Reduce guidance in this area until the student can perform this task independently.
3. Have the student hold the clothing item in the nondominant hand and pick up a hanger with the dominant hand.
4. Combine Steps 2 and 3 and then assist the student through the final processes of the task.
5. Reduce all guidance to the entire process until only a total-task verbal request is needed. Continue the process until the objective is met.
Lesson ADT 112
Task: Put laundry in a hamper.
Prerequisites: ADT 1, ADT 5, SEN 12
Concept: The skills involved in this task can easily be made into a game. This task can easily coincide with "throw a ball into a receptacle" (SOC 10) and later be useful for other tasks. The main objective is to begin the process of having the student be independently responsible for his or her own clothing. Another skill that is needed is basic discrimination (see prerequisite ADT 5) between which clothes need to be cleaned (put in the hamper) and which should be hung back up or otherwise put away. This determination may vary based on individual circumstances and should be deter-mined by joint agreement among the student (where reasonable), the teacher, and the person who originally determined that this skill was not independently present (the respondent).
Behavioral Objective: The student will independently discriminate between dirty and clean clothes and place the dirty clothes in a clothes hamper to a 95% accuracy level for 20 consecutive trials.
Materials: A hamper (preferably easy to open) and a variety of the student's clothes.
Task Analysis:
1. Help the student to determine the concept of "clean" versus "dirty" clothes. In different settings this may have different meanings, so it should be individualized. With assistance, as needed, help the student to point to different clothing items that arc either clean or dirty.
2. Continue Step 1, reducing assistance until the student can point to clean and dirty clothes on verbal request.
3. Using the skills gained through Step 2, assist the student in picking up and placing dirty clothes in a hamper.
4. Continue Step 3, reducing assistance and replacing the activity with a "basketball" type of game. When successful, use something like a gold star card or other indicator of success and post it in the student's room.
5. Continue Step 4, reducing guidance until student performs the task independently