It is an excellence resource for cheap materials to use in the projects. Pictures of sample projects are on the following two pages- follow the arrows. Task Analysis Students will be required to utilize their task analysis skills at their fieldwork sites. Those assigned to classrooms must prepare and run a group with an OT focus. This requires pre-planning to determine the cues and grading for each child.
Cues can be verbal, gestural, demonstration, and physical assistance.
Often a variety is used to help children process the directions. Grading requires the student to plan how to make each step easier or harder for the variety of children in the group. An example for a cutting task- provide one child with wide thick borders for the cutting line, provide another child with a built up edge border by placing glue along the cutting edge, provide another child with standard size lines. Another grading component can be the type of scissors- one child may need to use loop scissors while the others use standard preschool scissors. Most OT Students gain a greater appreciation for the demands placed on the special education teacher from this assignment.