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<blockquote data-quote="timer lady" data-source="post: 187409" data-attributes="member: 393"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>We've been working with kt all summer on this. As she is entering HS we told her that she "needed to get her act together" so to speak. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>The first thing we did was buy her a "cool" day timer. PCA, in home therapist, Integrated Listening Systems (ILS) worker & I taught & reminder kt to record her chores, appts, respite weekends, etc, in her day timer. (It helped that she was able to pick it out herself & find just the "right" pen.) She has been religious about using it. kt even recorded her next psychiatrist appointment in her day timer yesterday while we were at the psychiatrist's office. She carries it where ever she goes.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>She uses the notes area for many ideas; she plans to use it for writing out the assignments due. Integrated Listening Systems (ILS) worker is helping her organize the daytimer in such a way that she won't lose track of what is what (especially for school).</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>In the meantime, we have always taken chores & other things & broken them down. Reading assignments ~ kt would read 10 minutes at a time. We upped that time by a minute every 2 days during the summer. She now sits down & can read (if she chooses) for an hour at a time. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>Her bedroom started out as picking up dirty socks, then dirty shirts, etc. Now it's picking up dirty clothes, then onto books, making bed,etc. This took the entire summer but it's working.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>I guess what I'm offering is to break any chore, assignment, etc. down into pieces & slowly add time or add'l chores. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>Keep in mind that it took until kt was stablized until we could practice & put this in to place. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong>Good luck.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><strong></strong></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timer lady, post: 187409, member: 393"] [SIZE=4][FONT=Comic Sans MS][B]We've been working with kt all summer on this. As she is entering HS we told her that she "needed to get her act together" so to speak. The first thing we did was buy her a "cool" day timer. PCA, in home therapist, Integrated Listening Systems (ILS) worker & I taught & reminder kt to record her chores, appts, respite weekends, etc, in her day timer. (It helped that she was able to pick it out herself & find just the "right" pen.) She has been religious about using it. kt even recorded her next psychiatrist appointment in her day timer yesterday while we were at the psychiatrist's office. She carries it where ever she goes. She uses the notes area for many ideas; she plans to use it for writing out the assignments due. Integrated Listening Systems (ILS) worker is helping her organize the daytimer in such a way that she won't lose track of what is what (especially for school). In the meantime, we have always taken chores & other things & broken them down. Reading assignments ~ kt would read 10 minutes at a time. We upped that time by a minute every 2 days during the summer. She now sits down & can read (if she chooses) for an hour at a time. Her bedroom started out as picking up dirty socks, then dirty shirts, etc. Now it's picking up dirty clothes, then onto books, making bed,etc. This took the entire summer but it's working. I guess what I'm offering is to break any chore, assignment, etc. down into pieces & slowly add time or add'l chores. Keep in mind that it took until kt was stablized until we could practice & put this in to place. Good luck. [/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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