Personal care and hygiene
Product: Teaching tools
Trim size in cm: 11,5x8x8cm
ISBN: 9788859032106
Publication date: 01/03/2023
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The Autonomy Cards – Personal Care and Hygiene are a series of cards to train and increase autonomy related to personal care and hygiene. Portable, thanks to the ring onto which they are inserted, and customizable, everyone can create his/her own deck by selecting the steps he/she needs, they help to visualize and memorize the steps to take to perform numerous activities.
The cards in this box can be used directly by the person with autism, intellectual disabilities or cognitive delays and/or mediated by parents, the support teacher and those who work in the education and rehabilitation fields. Also supplied in a printable version, they can also be used as a visual support, included in the daily agenda or to illustrate sequences of actions or social stories.
1. Wash your hands
2. Wash your face
3. Take a shower
4. Wash your hair
5. Dry your hair
6. Take a bath
7. Use the toilet
8. Blow your nose
9. Put on contact lenses
10. Brush your teeth
11. Change the sanitary pad
12. Shave with a razor blade
13. Shave with an electric razor
14. Put on lipstick
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Card 1 - I approach the sink
Card 2 - I turn on the faucet
Card 3 - I adjust the water temperature
Card 4 - I press the pump of the liquid soap dispenser
Card 5 - I evenly distribute the soap on both my hands
Card 6 - I rinse off my hands
PERSONAL CARE AND HYGIENE
TAKING CARE OF HOUSE AND COOKING
AFFECTIVITY AND SEXUALITY
THE AUTHOR
Marco Pontis is a Teacher of Pedagogy and special didactics for intellectual disabilities and generalized developmental disorders as well as Pedagogy and special didactics for multi-professional collaboration at the University of Bolzano. For over fifteen years he has been working with and for people with autism spectrum disorders and other complex disabilities, constantly collaborating with family associations in the training of parents, school workers, socio-health care workers and supervising evidence-based educational interventions.