Adapting the means in which a leisure professional instructs participants with disabilities is also important. Dattilo provides some considerations for instructional strategies. For those of you going into recreational therapy, you will learn more about task analysis, breaking down an activity/task into its core components to be taught separately. I have had to use activity task analysis in every setting I have worked in, prior to every activity I implement. If you don’t know the components to an activity
1. How can you properly teach it to someone else, and more importantly (One paragraph)
a. How can you adapt that activity so participants with disabilities can be successful?
2. Explain your current experience with adapting an activity to participants with disabilities (One paragraph)
3. When you adapt an activity (One paragraph)
a. How do they react to the participants with disabilities
b. There is an emotional and physical benefit for participants with disabilities
Adapting the means in which a leisure professional instructs participants with disabilities is also important. Dattilo provides some considerations for instructional strategies. For those of you going into recreational therapy, you will learn more about task analysis, breaking down an activity/task into its core components to be taught separately. I have had to use activity task analysis in every setting I have worked in, prior to every activity I implement. If you don’t know the components to an activity
1. How can you properly teach it to someone else, and more importantly (One paragraph)
a. How can you adapt that activity so participants with disabilities can be successful?
2. Explain your current experience with adapting an activity to participants with disabilities (One paragraph)
3. When you adapt an activity (One paragraph)
a. How do they react to the participants with disabilities
b. There is an emotional and physical benefit for participants with disabilities