Below is a general skill sequence for helping learners conceptualize the first steps to writing and drawing.
Crafting, simple art, tracing, and general handwriting are exciting skill areas for any clinician to teach! In doing so, we see the first steps being taken toward classroom and general academic success. However, to get there, we’ll likely want to teach some basic component skills that open the door for all of the above. This skill area looks to teach just that. Starting with basic imitation behaviors, this skill area takes the learner through performing only the most basic writing behaviors. As the learner gains fluency, the door begins to open to more complicated tracing and drawing practices.
Treatment Plan Goal Ideas
This is a list of treatment plan goals. These are different from the goals you will find in the skill sequence below. Your treatment plan goals encompass any number of goals from the skill sequence. Sometime they will include multiple goals from the sequence (”Learner will label 5 toys”) and sometimes the treatment plan goal will be simply consist of a really important goal from the skill sequence (”Will label caregiver”). An analogy I like to use goes as follows: Each skill sequence goal (commonly known as a “target”) represent each stair in a flight of stairs. The treatment plan goal is the flight itself.
Treatment plan goal ideas for this particular skill area are as follows:
- Learner will imitate five basic writing behaviors with their finger.
- Learner will imitate five basic writing behaviors with a writing utensil.
Component Skills
Your learner may need to be fluent in these component skills first before introducing this goal/skill area. Component skills for this skill sequence may include skill areas that are fundamental to other areas. Fluency in the skill areas listed below may increase the likelihood that your learner will succeed in this skill sequence and those afterward.
Intro to Reinforcer/Preference Expansion
Imitates Actions with Preferred Items
Imitates Actions During Familiar Routines
Imitation with Uni-Functional Toys
Imitates Gross Motor Actions
Imitates Fine Motor ActionsSkill Possibilities
Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to perform basic imitations related to writing and drawing. Note that every learner is different and that you likely will need to tweak and vary some programming to their needs. Click the triangle icon to view the full description for each skill in the sequence/area.
Concurrent Skills
Working on these skills at the same time could help with goal mastery. Maybe your learner has mastered these skills already. Perhaps they are already listed as component skills above. That’s okay! Targeting other learning channels might help your learner.
Imitates Fine Motor Actions
Imitation with Multi-Functional ToysComposite Skills
These are the possible next steps for learners who have mastered, or are mastering, the skills listed above. Note that new skill areas may require fluency in other component skills not listed above. Also, you can introduce composite skill sequences prematurely to keep your learner progressing, as generativity may occur earlier than expected.
Intro to TracingIntro to Coloring (Coming Soon!)
Basic Drawing (Coming Soon!)
Follow the link below to better understand component-composite analysis.
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