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I Can Get My Haircut In The Barbershop |
Goal and Objectives
Goal: To make haircut a positive experience, help the child feel comfortable and reduce anxiety.
Objectives:
The child will learn:
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- understand the necessity of cutting hair at regular intervals.
- learn to wait for their turn.
- understand the process of getting a haircut.
- learn to adopt alternate strategies to manage his sensory challenges.
- learn to express any discomfort at the appropriate time.
- learn to appreciate their appearance after the haircut.
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Social Narrative
This narrative describes a social situation or activity and answers key questions: What, When, Where, Why and How. It helps individuals with special needs understand the appropriate behaviours and responses for similar situations.
Picture Cards
Pocket-sized cards featuring key images to help enhance visual memory, comprehension and communication skills by promoting an understanding of abstract concepts.
Cue Cards
Visual cues to help support communication, promote positive actions, assist in social interactions, aid task completion, teach self-regulation and demonstrate expected behaviour.
Communication Cards
Visual cards to assist individuals with special needs to express their needs, emotions, comments and choices. This improves communication, reduces frustration and behavioural challenges, supports social interaction and promotes independence.
Key and Important Simple Strategies Cards
K.I.S.S. Cards
Pocket-sized Do’s and Don’ts cards to help encourage appropriate behaviour and clarify right from wrong. They support emotional regulation, improve social skills, enhance choice-making, assist with transitions and routines and build confidence.
Poster
Social narrative presented in a poster that can be printed and displayed at home or school.
Power Script
Pocket-sized cards featuring positive affirmations that serve as an inner voice, providing motivation and boosting self-confidence.
Power Script Poster
Poster version of Power Scripts with special characters and a space for inserting a child’s image for personalisation.
Self Expression Through Use of Pictures Script
SETUP Script
This is a comic-style conversation based on a scenario related to the topic.
Audiobook
An audio version of the narrative to help auditory learners.
I Can Get My Haircut In The Barbershop – Click here to play
Video – I Can Get My Haircut In The Barbershop
A video version of the narrative to help visual learners.
Audio – Power Voice in Male Voice
| After the haircut, I admire myself in the mirror – Click here to play I can stay calm and focused even in a noisy place – Click here to play I feel safe and confident at the barbershop because I know what to expect – Click here to play I look neat and handsome after my haircut – Click here to play |
| Source and Attribution of images All images used in the above Assets and Aids are originally created. |
| This digital material has been developed by the Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini Inclusive Education Project, a unit of Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam, as a collaborative offering in the service of our nation. |