ABSTRACT

User-friendly and practical, this is an excellent resource for all professionals looking to run creative sessions with people with profound and complex learning difficulties. Using a selection of twenty everyday objects, it provides resource materials, ideas and flexible structures to extend and complement professionals' existing approaches. It examines a range of teaching approaches, ideas for adapting activities and equipment, and how to present materials and tasks to the student while providing ideas, work outlines, activities and methods, recording sheets and photocopiable materials. It can be used with individuals and groups in a variety of settings, including educational establishments, day provisions or at home and is designed to provide opportunities for participation at all ability levels. With the help of this book, the list of object-based activities is endless!

chapter |13 pages

How to use this book

part |201 pages

Themes

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take an apple

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a camera

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a coconut

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a piece of material

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a stone

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take an overboard projector

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a piece of wood

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take an orange

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a bamboo stick

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a jug of water

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a potato

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a piece of card

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a mirror

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a bag of flour

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a piece of paper

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a branch

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a plastic bottle

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a balloon

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a poem

chapter |9 pages

Theme Take a tape recorder