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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 533337" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>I think these issues alone would probably make many of us here with difficult child's think, I'd like that to be my problem, but put together with your last post teaching these kinds of skills??? I suspect you will need some unique (not to us here, but not common in m ost houses) kinds of teaching. </p><p></p><p>One idea is to put pictures/words she can read on each drawer and the closet. Yes, she may already know, but it will help her organize her thinking while she is doing the chore. </p><p></p><p>Again, you can have a laundry checklist....what you want her to do first, second etc. Or, sometimes it works to teach the last thing on the list first. (called a backward chain)....so you get it all r eady, in the basket, bring it u p and then hand her piles to put in each drawer/spot....ask where it goes....after she does great with that, no cues.....then she takes them out of the basket, once confident she has that, have her bring the basket up....etc etc etc...going back in steps until she is doing it all. She can probably do all of the steps...so this may seem like overkill but this kind of direct teaching can help differently wired kids to get the routine down better, they then dont get so overwhelmed and lose their place. At her age some kids can help with laundry and some dont do so well but it is still within normal range, I agree with others, not to do much laundry yet, still... she sounds like (from your other post) she may really be a kiddo who will need alternatives as you said (not the reward chart necessarily, though it is nice to give a treat, hug, whatever works for your individual child, at the end of a task board as you probably already do.... to help her to be motivated to learn)....</p><p></p><p>Those are a couple of things I have done and mine is developmentally about where yours is in those kinds of tasks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 533337, member: 12886"] I think these issues alone would probably make many of us here with difficult child's think, I'd like that to be my problem, but put together with your last post teaching these kinds of skills??? I suspect you will need some unique (not to us here, but not common in m ost houses) kinds of teaching. One idea is to put pictures/words she can read on each drawer and the closet. Yes, she may already know, but it will help her organize her thinking while she is doing the chore. Again, you can have a laundry checklist....what you want her to do first, second etc. Or, sometimes it works to teach the last thing on the list first. (called a backward chain)....so you get it all r eady, in the basket, bring it u p and then hand her piles to put in each drawer/spot....ask where it goes....after she does great with that, no cues.....then she takes them out of the basket, once confident she has that, have her bring the basket up....etc etc etc...going back in steps until she is doing it all. She can probably do all of the steps...so this may seem like overkill but this kind of direct teaching can help differently wired kids to get the routine down better, they then dont get so overwhelmed and lose their place. At her age some kids can help with laundry and some dont do so well but it is still within normal range, I agree with others, not to do much laundry yet, still... she sounds like (from your other post) she may really be a kiddo who will need alternatives as you said (not the reward chart necessarily, though it is nice to give a treat, hug, whatever works for your individual child, at the end of a task board as you probably already do.... to help her to be motivated to learn).... Those are a couple of things I have done and mine is developmentally about where yours is in those kinds of tasks. [/QUOTE]
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