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Promoting Meaningful Activity
within Group Situations
Evaluation Quiz 2
WEEK WEEK 5
Promoting Meaningful Activity within Group
Situations
Prompting Meaningful Activity: Group Situations
When people with DD actively interact with their social and physical
environment, they have opportunities to learn and develop new skills.
If an environment is void of activities, individuals with DD experience little to
no enjoyment in their daily routines.
Boredom, lethargy, etc.
It promotes development of problem bx.
If individuals spend too much time in unstimulating environment, they may
learn to obtain stimulation thru stereotypic or SIBs
Individuals with DD are typically prompted to:
Frequently prompted or expected to participate in the same activity day in
and day out.
Highly repetitive and of no value and or meaning to the individual
This may result in the development of problem bx
Promoting Meaningful Activity within Group Situations 1
, Identifying Important Indicators of Activity
Involvement
Valid indices of meaningful activity involvement: specification of what
constitutes a desirable activity amongst consumers of an agency's services
such that supervisors and clinicians can determine the extent to which clients
participate in activities.
Purposeful Activities
Doing something with an apparent purpose, and doing something that
would be usual for a person without disabilities
Using leisure materials as designed
Working independently
Promoting Meaningful Activity within Group Situations 2
Promoting Meaningful Activity
within Group Situations
Evaluation Quiz 2
WEEK WEEK 5
Promoting Meaningful Activity within Group
Situations
Prompting Meaningful Activity: Group Situations
When people with DD actively interact with their social and physical
environment, they have opportunities to learn and develop new skills.
If an environment is void of activities, individuals with DD experience little to
no enjoyment in their daily routines.
Boredom, lethargy, etc.
It promotes development of problem bx.
If individuals spend too much time in unstimulating environment, they may
learn to obtain stimulation thru stereotypic or SIBs
Individuals with DD are typically prompted to:
Frequently prompted or expected to participate in the same activity day in
and day out.
Highly repetitive and of no value and or meaning to the individual
This may result in the development of problem bx
Promoting Meaningful Activity within Group Situations 1
, Identifying Important Indicators of Activity
Involvement
Valid indices of meaningful activity involvement: specification of what
constitutes a desirable activity amongst consumers of an agency's services
such that supervisors and clinicians can determine the extent to which clients
participate in activities.
Purposeful Activities
Doing something with an apparent purpose, and doing something that
would be usual for a person without disabilities
Using leisure materials as designed
Working independently
Promoting Meaningful Activity within Group Situations 2
