Inclusion
What is inclusion?
•Inclusion involves people of all abilities having equal access to fully participate in camps/programming.
What are some behaviour management strategies to deal with challenging behaviour?
-Replace negatives with positives
-Be a good role model
-Show participants that they can control their behaviour
-Establish ground rules
-Encourage independence
-Create a calm corner
-Reward positive behaviour
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What is involved in a placement?
•Being on time
•Being ready (proper uniform, bag away, ready to work)
•Phones away
•Being that helping hand (Always asking to assist or what you can assist with during program time).
What are some disabilities that we may see at camp or out in the community?
-Autism
-Angleman Syndrome
-Tourettes
-ADHD
-Down Syndrome
-Hearing impairment
-Visual impairments
-William’s Syndrome
What are some common barriers for individuals with disabilities?
-physical
-ATTITUDINAL BARRIERS
-Communication Barriers
-Policy Barriers
-Social
How Can Counselors Be Inclusive?
-Spend one-on-one time with each of your campers
- Spend one-on-one time with each of your campers
-Adapting Activities
What is a behaviour?
The way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus.
As an Inclusion Facilitator what is you ratio within the camp setting?
1:1 ratio
-1 staff to 1 camper
What are some characteristics of someone with down syndrome?
Behavioural:
How can you assist to make new friends?
•Introducing campers to each other
•Have campers pick different partners for games and separate them into different groups
•Encourage campers to use a person's name when talking to them
•Do not tolerate put downs or isolating behaviours
•Celebrate uniqueness
•Challenge campers to solves problems and work together
What is the BIG 3?
Space
Equiptment
Rules
What is token economy and how is it used?
A token economy is a system in which an individual is rewarded for demonstrating the desired behavior and is rewarded by earning a token/chip/marker that can be exchanged for the desired prize.
When using the washroom with your camper what are some important things to remember and why?
-Always have someone go with you
-Make sure you have everything you need before you get to the washroom
-Dignity
-Sanitation
what are some different types of a disabilities? FOR EXAMPLE: sensory
Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or a combination of multiple factor
What are the High 5 Principles?
Hint: 5 of them
•A caring adult
•The opportunity to make friends
•The opportunity to play
•The opportunity to master skills
•The opportunity to participate
When is Additional Support Required?
1:1 support is required to participate in programs when the individual:
•Requires additional support to complete basic needs (dressing, toileting or feeding)
•Extra Support is required at school
•Does not understand danger
•Has a tendency to exhibit behaviours to be managed (ie. biting, scratching, pinching, eloping, aggression, self-harm etc.)
•Requires support for communication, mobility, comprehension or socialization
What is behavior communicating to us?
• Fear • Judgement, performance, accuracy • Frustration • Difficulty with task, difficulty with time • Trauma • Understimulation • Lack of motivation/interest • Needs not being met • Sensory? Hungry? Bathroom? Fatigue? • Response to stimuli • Direction given, another’s behaviour
As an ICIT what are some DO's and DONT's?
DO
Come prepared
Participate in the programming
Arrive on time
Wear your proper uniform to program/camp
Be a positive role model
Be alone with a participant/camper
HAVE FUN AND SMILE
DO NOT
Use your phone
Share your personal Information
Take photos of the participants
Use inappropriate language
Be alone with a participant/camper
What are some examples of Adapted equipment?
-Wheelchairs
-Sledges
-Pool
-Pool lifts
How can you be a caring adult?
•By learning each child's name
•Getting them to tell you about themselves
•Say hello and goodbye to each camper as they arrive and leave for the day
•Looking the camper in the face at their level when speaking to them
•Have a little conversation with every camper each day
•Show availability and that you are willing to help them and listen to their problems
•Smile when you talk to them
What is picture exchange communication?
•Starts by teaching an individual to give a single picture of a desired item or action to a “Communicative Partner” who will honor the exchange as a request.
What might a behaviour look like?
-Pinching
-Biting
-Screaming
-Yelling
-Eloping
-Incompliant
-Tantrums
-Swearing
What are back pocket games?
When things don’t go as planned or you need something to keep your campers engaged during transitions such as washroom breaks,, it is always good to have games in your back pocket to use in these situations. They require no equipment and have simple rules. These games may include, I SPY, would you rather and Simon says.
are all disabilities visable?
NO THEY ARE NOT
How could you increase participation?
•Involve campers in planning
•Avoid elimination games
•Avoid appointing captains and team choosing
•Give campers choice
•Encourage peer teaching and leadership