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Routine-Based Learning

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FACETS: Considerations for Planning Routines Based Intervention

From a joint project of Kansas University Affiliated Program and Florida State University. Discusses important considerations when planning routines, including targeting goals, identifying opportunities for teaching and learning, the role of facilitators, inclusion of a variety of intervention strategies, considerations for choosing cues, natural consequences or contingencies, and identifying environments.

http://tactics.fsu.edu/pdf/HandoutPDFs/TaCTICSHandouts/Module2/Considerations.pdf


Incorporating Active Learning Theory into Activity Routines

By Kate Moss & Stacy Shafer – Education Specialists, TSBVI Outreach

Focuses on Phase IV and V of Lilli Nielsen's five educational phases of educational treatment outlined in her book, Are You Blind?, and addresses how active learning principles can be incorporated into routines.

http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/seehear/winter06/learning.htm


Make It Routine

By Robbie Blaha & Kate Moss – Texas Deafblind Project

Discusses the benefits routines provide for a child, including opportunities for communication, emotional support for learning, a framework for learning, method for building procedural memory, and a way to highlight new information. Offers suggestions on choosing activities, developing the routine and setting up a family-friendly schedule. Includes sample schedules and a sample routine.

http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/seehear/archive/routine.html


Routines

By Millie Smith – TSBVI

Addresses the criteria necessary to call an activity a routine. Includes a sample activity.

http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/vmi/routines.htm


The Deafblind Disabled Baby:
Program of Care for Parents of the Deafblind Baby with Multiple Disabilities

By Peggy Freeman

A chapter on routines from a longer work by Peggy Freeman. Takes an in-depth look at the various stages of learning that take place in a variety of areas, including feeding, sleeping, bathing, dressing and undressing, as well as toileting. Offers examples outlining ways to adapt and change routines as a baby grows and develops.

http://www.nationaldb.org/ISSelectedTopics.php?topicCatID=39 Select Routines (from the offered list on this web page)


Social interactions in routines: The framework for communication.

By Kathleen Stremel (2009)

Addresses routines within the context of communication and social interactions with others giving examples and forms that can be used (from the offered list on this web page).

http://www.nationaldb.org/ISSelectedTopics.php?topicCatID=39%20Select%20Routines


Routines to Consider (adapted from a list in Stremel, 2009):