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Life Skills Programmes

Life skills are generally considered to be those skills and abilities that allow us to deal effectively with the demands of everyday life. They are those skills which will assist an individual to interact with his/her environment and help them be as independent as possible. In particular, behaviours associated with good sleep hygiene, feeding and healthy eating, and independence in toileting are essential adaptive daily living skills. These skills have benefits that extend well beyond the individual child.

These skills not only influence a child’s health and well-being, but impact the whole family. Frequent disruption of sleep or mealtimes can interfere with quality family time, and cause significant stress to both parents and siblings.

Teaching life skills can mean the difference between an independent child thriving in his/her environment and a dependent child, who gets their needs met by engaging in challenging behaviour.  Life skills, such as toileting or feeding, can be very complicated and need to be broken down into much smaller steps.

At Reach Children’s Services, we’ll work with you to help establish a realistic plan to suit you and your family. Plans and levels of support will be dependent on your child’s individual needs. To learn more about these programmes, read more on Toileting Training Programme Consultation, Sleeping Difficulties and Feeding Interventions or get in touch. 

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When completing easier tasks it reduces frustration levels, because they are having success on easy tasks, increasing the likelihood that they will try harder activities or requests. Once they are happily responding then try the more difficult task. If it doesnt work the first time, don’t worry,  just try again!

This helps with many activities and requests and is super helpful with transitioning.

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Very importantly, visual supports allow time for language processing, as verbal instructions need to be remembered whereas visual supports can be there to serve as a reminder or to allow the child to process and understand the information. 

Sometimes people might associate visual supports with younger children or children with more complex needs but that is not the case. Visual supports are a super addition to any child or adult, one example is using a shopping list to remember what you need to purchase when doing the grocerys. 

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