Pictures reflecting Thematic PhotoBooks Process
Learning to use a camera
Creating Thematic PhotoBooks
Different Types and Usage of Thematic PhotoBooks
Examples of Thematic PhotoBooks about Daily Living Skills
Learning Daily Living Skills using Thematic PhotoBooks methodology could be very useful and pleasurable. It's always fun to pose for the pictures and kids try to do a good job. Photo is a good evidence that a child is able to perform this or that action. So, Thematic PhotoBook could be a good motivation and a source of pride for the child. This process allows a child to learn many different skills simultaneously. We show here examples of 3 Thematic PhotoBooks and one of them describes the process in more details.
Preparing Breakfast - Cereal and Milk
Thematic PhotoBooks about preparing breakfast - cereal and milk helps a child to learn skill of preparing his own breakfast independently. For many children such an easy process could require additional training. Through Thematic PhotoBook process we enhance child's skills in many other areas. The process of preparing cereal and milk has seven basic steps. Some children might need more steps depending on their level of development (as for example as a process of opening a milk bottle cover ) Those seven pictures could be used as a collage to help a child during the process of preparing breakfast .
We can use Thematic PhotoBooks methodology to help a child learn numbers, letter, colors or other things along the way with learning the main skill of preparing his/her own breakfast Book of cards will help to learn the sequence of the process theoretically as well as it could be learn for matching, sorting, learning colors or letters or for reading process depending of what a child need to learn Thematic PhotoBooks training could be designed as a game (ex. you put seven cookies and you ask a child to match the step to a number. If a child makes a mistake he looses a cookie When he learned the matching process you could use it to play under time pressure The less time, the more cookies
You can make any rules you want to motivate your child The most important point here that a child should be actively engaged by any means, his mind should be working as by that he is developing n his mental capacities instead of passively watching videos and these pictures could be eventually put in Thematic PhotoBooks about DLS for some other purpose such as practicing reading or improving vocabulary, reviewing other kitchen material such as a bowl, a spoon, a napkin, etc Thematic PhotoBooks about DLS will register your child achievements on the "road to independence". And a camera can be a great helpful tool for you and a child
Preparing a lunch for school
Thematic PhotoBook about preparing peanut butter-jello sandwich helps a child to learn the skill of preparing his own lunch for the school independently. This process is similar to the process of learning Daily Living Skills -preparing breakfast
Learning to Shop
Learning how to shop is a big step towards independence. Think Thematic PhotoBook could first be created at play setting . When we worked on that photobook we saw how many mistakes children/adult do during shopping-forget their buy, get a purchase, but forget to pay. Forgetting change was the most common issue. Practicing this skill in form of a game with taking pictures, then learning identify/name steps was a lot of fun. Enjoy doing your own Thematic PhotoBooks!
