Guest Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Does anyone have any experience of a red and green start and finish box idea that is used with SEN children ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hali Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 sorry never heard of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiles Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 We have used a start and finish tray for one of our SEN children. His activity start in one tray nad then when he completes it he puts it in the other tray. Can't rember what colours off hand. Smiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I have heard of the start & finish box methods but not combined with colour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Ive used green and red dots on things like handwriting sheets to show start and stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 yes have just done a very good course on working with children with communication difficulties.will see if i can find course notes if not will rack brain for details but only just in from work. first day back after a weeks break and head spinning at mo. promise to get back to you later this evening . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I think that you may be referring to the TEACHH approach to teaching children with autism. Each child has a work station with a start box containing 1 or more tasks that can be completed independently. When s/he has finished than it is put into tha finish box and child either leaves table or does another task (usually denoted by pictures on a visual time table). This is to encourage independent learning. The colour of the boxes is not important. Hope this helps Kate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 that is what i was going to say kate. the course i did was for complex social communication difficulties and was run by portage workers. perhaps if you contact you local portage center they may be able to give you some support and guidance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 I have adopted this method in the past with some of my SEN children too. We prepared a pile of big zippy wallets (called 'Jobby Bags'), each containing a variety of 3 activities (e.g. threading, book to read, name-practise card (laminated)), and then just had to ensure the child concerned was 'trained up' appropriately. The idea was, one jobby bag went into the green crate and it didn't matter in what order the jobs were done, but they did all need to be done. When each job was done it was to be put into the red 'finished' crate, and when all 3 were done, they all get put into the zippy wallet again for collection/'assessment'/renewal. I have also set up jobby bags for one particular child who just finds carpet-time hard. Not a cop-out... more of an agreed strategy between myself and the child for times when the learning was over her head/she'd had a bad night/had a Friday lunch full of e-numbers!!! I would say it's taken, on average, no more than a week of training up for each new child to get used to it, for about 2 or 3 x 5-10min's per day with an adult. Don't know if this is helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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