This leisure education program is originally designed by Joswiak, K.F.(1989). I made efforts to do some adaptations to use more available in our educational environments. This leisure education program is designed to serve as guidelines for the implem...
This leisure education program is originally designed by Joswiak, K.F.(1989). I made efforts to do some adaptations to use more available in our educational environments. This leisure education program is designed to serve as guidelines for the implementation of a leisure education program for persons with developmental disabilities.
In many cases persons with developmental disabilities have more free time than most other people. Yet on the other hand, a lack of spontaneity and self-direction trends to inhibit their constructive use of that free time. Most persons with developmental disabilities have either learned leisure skills or experienced leisure activities in settings other than home. But often experiencing leisure activities in these environments does not transfer to participation in those activities in the home. At times this transfer may not occur even though a person may possess the skill or ability necessary for the leisure activity. So in addition to teaching individuals with developmental disabilities "how" to play, they need to be taught "why" and "where" to play.
So, three terminal performance objectives from the overall goals of the program are to demonstrate awareness of the meaning of play and leisure, leisure resources in the home and leisure resources in the community. The terminal performance objectives are broken into enabling objectives which deal with specific components of the terminal performance objectives. Performance measures serve as the criteria used to determine client attainment of the enabling objectives. The learning leisure activities provide the outlines for instruction, teaching techniques to use, additional materials required and recommended terminology for clients. Each enabling objectives has a minimum of one corresponding leisure learning activity which is designed to affect client attainment of that objective.
The program is made up of eighteen total leisure education sessions, two sessions per week for nine weeks. Most sessions are approximately 30 minutes to one hour in length, depending on the size of the group, their ability levels, focus and interest.