strategies
strategies
When it comes to our process of work, we like to keep it professional and fun! Our 4 different plans and strategies allow us to fully understand our clients to achieve better results and development.
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L.I.F.E Base Plan
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Life Laughter Plan
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Life Fitness Plan
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Anxiety Prevention Plan
L.I.F.E Base Plan
1. Get to know the individual, the family and or home care provider. Make a list of positive attributes and areas wanting to develop in.
2. Fill out (Life Quality Goals Chart) and (About Me Before and After) form. Then create short term and long-term goals and discuss the steps needed to achieve them.
3. While supporting providing a safe, respectful, loving and caring working environment.
4. Support based on the individuals current physical, mental, emotional and or spiritual state that day.
5. Motivate the individual through the faith and trust developed in the working relationship to work on their goals as hard as they can while respecting the amount the individual is willing to accomplish that day.
6. Fill out the (L.I.F.E monthly log) with the individual at the ending of the shift so they can build awareness of what they were able to accomplish and what they need to work on. Film your son or daughter working on their goals and send you the videos so you can visually see their progression.
7. Meet with family and or home care providers at annual meetings to evaluate the written and social media driven (L.I.F.E. Shift logs). Document the current status of each goal and the individuals overall well being.
8. Have the family/home share care provider implicate the steps/goals discussed in the annual meeting outside of shift hours, so the individual can further develop their independence.
9. Fill out the (About Me Before and After) form again after some goals have been accomplished and see the growth in fulfillment and empowerment to keep moving forward. I then take the next steps needed during shift time to support and create more goals to continue the cycle in developing the individual's overall quality of life.
Life Laughter Plan
Apply step 1 in the “Life Plan”: Get to know the individual and develop trust. Make a list of positive attributes, the individuals likes and past experiences that made them happy and laugh
When creating your goals based plan using the “Life Schedule” and “Quarantine Journal” documents for reference write out a scheduled activity that makes them happy for each mental, emotional and spiritual well being section.
Alter your Environment: The environment you are consistently in can play a huge part in your mood. If the individual's mood/behaviour is not a great spot, then changing the environment, getting rid of all possible behavioural triggers and reshaping the goals routine to include things that the individual smiles using likes identified in step 1 will make a big positive difference.
4. Discuss and role play the 4 types of laughter:
A social defence: shortcut to communication for a sense of belonging and getting people to like you.
Nervous Laughter: A guard against emotional stress
With a snort: Pulling air in and out throughout your nose
***Contagious Laughter: Hearing laughter triggers you to smile and laugh yourself.
5. Promote laughing at yourself: Applying the 4 types of laughter if the individual sees you being happy and laughing at yourself turning awkward moments, shortcomings and mistakes as opportunities for a good laugh at your own expense, they will feed off of that energy and follow suit.
6. Work Hard, Laugh Hard: Life is all about balance. We produce the most amount of productivity and growth when we have an abundance of laughter in our life. So practicing laughter, paying attention to the physical sensations of laughter and using the “Life Log” on my website to track your findings helps you apply your personal notes to having the most amount of laughter possible and let go of fear.
HAVE FUN!
Life Fitness Plan
Find out all of the individuals physical limitations and then build awareness of their physical and cognitive skills.
Developing “gross motor development” relies on exploratory activities.
Example (climbing, jumping, jogging, running, variations of bending, stretching and squatting.
Generalization: is the ability to perform a specific skill in various situations.
You can build awareness of all of these by seeing a movement disorder specialist and enrolling in camps.
Make a playlist of music that brings excitement, motivation and focus.
Create structured goals using the (Life Log) for what the individual wants to accomplish physically. Developing muscle memory and enhance movement skills Create a stretching guide for before and after physical activity.
Pair exercise and physical activity with reinforcement to ultimately make the activities themselves fun and a part of their routine.
Increase initiation and creativity skills through exposure to various modules of exercise.
Example (different activities, different movements, objects and equipment)
Support socialization through small group activities that include elements of teamwork and helping behaviours. Which in turn leads to making healthy connections and friendships.
Life Anxiety Prevention Plan
Its common for people on the spectrum and or developmental disability to get frustrated and act out on negative behaviours from there focus troubles and blame themselves. But gently reminding them to not beat yourself up. Instead of using self-critical judgement, use diminishing attention as a reminder it’s time to focus, do some deep breaths and turn off all distractions.
Doing so decreases anxiety and helps implicate focus being able to accomplish the small goals, then the bigger goal gets accomplished.
Doing so is imperative with tracking the goals, tasks, positive and negative behaviours that come up. In turn helps with building awareness around what healthy tools work best for focusing and getting goals/tasks done.
So what do we do to change that?
Identify:
1: Triggers (physical, mental and emotional)
2: Areas and situations of Anxiety
3: Create structured short term and long term Life Goals plan. Short term with small steps that lead towards the longer term goals breaking the anxiety barriers down one step at a time
4: Bringing the individuals likes/loves of life with them from their home out with them in the community
5: Once they become more comfortable in the community achieving small term goals, we then start working on the long term goals vision
Anytime old problematic behaviours come up we apply IAS (Identify, Address Support)
