Re: street crossing

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Kind regards,

Kelley

in Australia

>I'm looking for a program or task analysis for teaching a child to

>cross the street. It's actually quite a complex skill and I sure don't

>want to miss anything. (There's no 8/10 trials on this goal!!!) Any

>ideas?

>

>Thanks!

>

[Guest guest]

For two of my clients, our first goal was to teach them to stop at every curb

(parking lots, neighborhood streets). The curb is the SD and they know that they

must stop and wait for further direction from an adult. Now that they have

mastered that, we are working on identifying if there are cars coming in either

direction (we ask " Are there any cars coming? " ). Our next step will be for them

to independently look left, then right, then left again to make sure no cars are

coming, and then cross the street.

This could be put into a task analysis format- we are basically using forward

chaining.

~cindy

Kelley <satine14@...> wrote:

I would love to hear any responses to this too! Please post replies

to the list.

Kind regards,

Kelley

in Australia

>I'm looking for a program or task analysis for teaching a child to

>cross the street. It's actually quite a complex skill and I sure don't

>want to miss anything. (There's no 8/10 trials on this goal!!!) Any

>ideas?

>

>Thanks!

>

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[Guest guest]

A task analysis is the place to start, but with this particular skill I have

found that it needs to be more of flowchart.

Do you see a car?

If no, then cross

If yes, then is the car moving or is it parked?

If it is parked, then cross

If it is moving, is it close or far away?

If it's close, then wait. Once it passes, look again (start over).

If it's far away then cross (be sure to define " far away " )

BTW-Be sure to include what the child should do when a kind sole stops his

car in the middle of the street and motions for the child to cross. This

happens more often than one would think, and it really throws the whole

process upside down! And when one car stops, the child still has to check

in the opposite direction. Just because one car stops doesn't mean all

will.

You need to keep track of every twist you come across and teach a response

to each of these situations. This is really the only way to obtain

" mastery. "

Lucie Dufresne, MS Ed, BCBA

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Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 11:07 AM

Subject: [ ] street crossing

Hi all,

I think you should consider the age a NT child learns to cross a

street....they probably start learning at around age 5 and are independent

with the skill

at age 7 or 8 for a non-busy street. For a busy street or highway that

independed street crossing age would be much higher. There is a lot of

judgement

and decision making involved with street crossing so teaching this skill is

difficult. I would consider the child's mental age and I would spend years

prompting and supervising the child with street crossing. As you said, the

skill of

street crossing needs to be 100% mastered and generalized before allowing

the

child to do the skill independently.

I do think writing out a task analysis yourself would be a great place to

start....stop 6 inches before the edge of the curb....wait for an adult to

stand

next to you....look to the left, to the right and to the left.....if no cars

in sight (I would start on a very quiet street and make the criteria No

moving

cars), step off the curb and proceed quickly across the street with the

adult.

You could also try social skill homemade picture books and videomodeling to

begin to build this skill.

Good Luck!

Barbera