di: How to teach snapping a snap

[Brainsarefun - Rory]

This is so great. Thank you.

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Joe Kuhn <joemkuhn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been reading "Teaching Needy Kids", by Zig and appreciate his candid
> stories, particularly those about teaching kids.  The insights are so
> valuable for those of us who teach either in school or at hoome.  So I
> thought I share a story of my own in case somebody else can use it.
>
> I worked with a kid during my college days who couldn't talk much.  To mix
> things up a little I asked his mother if there was anything else we could
> work on besides speech, which was really hard for this boy.  She said he
> couldn't snap his pants.  I had her bring in an extra pair of pants to our
> next session.
>
> Next time we met, we did a piece of paper tug of war.  I won the game and
> gave myself a point on the tally on the chalk board.  Next try he clamped
> onto that piece of paper like a vice and won easily.  He won a couple more
> times and I was sad because I was loosing the game.
>
> Then we substituted the extra pair of pants for the piece of paper.  I
> held onto the legs and he held onto the snap part with just his one hand.
> I had to help him get positioned correctly, said "go", he pulled and the
> snap snapped.  I pointed directly to the snap and said, "Good job, you
> snapped your pants.". I unsnapped them and gave them back and said, "Snap
> your pants."  He did it easily.  His mother was quite happy.
>
> Note we did a pretest where I had his mother unsnap his pants and asked
> him to snap them for us.  He put his hands around the snaps and bent over
> like he had seen other kid do at his preschool.  When he stoop up, his
> pants were still not snapped.
>
> I suppose someday snaps will work by putting your fingers on both sides of
> a pants fastener and they will hold, but not now with our current tech.  I
> realized in between sessions that he hadn't seen that pressure was being
> applied by the pointer finger and the thumb, so that is what I set out to
> teach him.  When you look at someone snapping a snap, you can't tell if
> pressure is being applied or not.  At least he couldn't.
>
> We extended the skill to putting on his socks because he couldn't do that
> either.  I held onto the toe and he pulled on both sides of the sock to win
> the tug of war.  Then we got his toes down by the opening of the sock and
> he pulled it right on.  I may have tugged on the toe a tad.  Do it again,
> done.  Good job.  Getting smart!
>
> We also went out to the car and got him opening the door lock of the car.
> This was back when door locks were a post by the corner of the window.
>
> I also have a story about getting rid of tantrums with this same student,
> if there's any interest.
>
> Teach well.
>
> Joe
>
>
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Rory
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