Functional Academics for Special Children

Functional Academics for children

In normal life, every child should learn lot of thing which is necessary in daily routine life. But when we discuss about special children, we surely take additional step to teach daily activity. These skills or activity include educational or non-educational skills. In non-educational skills, we include bathing, brushing, clothing or toileting etc. In educational skills, we include 3R like reading, writing or math.

Functional Academics for Special Children

          

                                          Here, we are discussing about educational program like reading, writing or math like:-

Ø  In reading, we include in it like self name, name of family member, address, house number, phone number etc. we divide it in like pre-primary, primary, secondary, pre-vocational etc. we also include other things like knowledge about the nearby environment – name of vegetables, fruits, birds. Other activity like dance, sleeping, playing etc

Ø  In math, we include knowledge of calculation (+, -, *, /) and their use in normal life, money matters, time or quantity etc. we divide in it like counting - cordial, ordinal, matching, grouping, classification, sequencing, patterns etc.

Ø   In writing, we include basic things to write down like name, address, phone number or family names etc. we divide in it like scrubbing, scribbling, tracing, copy etc. It also include having the knowledge about the fine motor activity of children and having  coordination in other activity like how to sit, eye contact, hand moments etc.