Tonight was my second night with BV because I was unable to attend last week. I am still trying to get a feel for the biggest difficulties I will face with BV. I am noticing that he has a difficult time staying focused when we are doing land-based group activities. He has a harder time listening and following directions. I feel like I should take him off so that we can do our own thing, but I know that social interaction is something that his parents want us to work on. I think that maybe instead of trying to do so many interactions with the other kids we will limit it to one activity as a group and then work on our own to try to get him better at following instructions without getting distracted. Then perhaps in a couple of weeks we might be able to become a little more involved with the other kids of our group.
BV also tends to get a little over excited during the water-based activity time. He has a hard time accepting that there are other people in the water. He likes to do his own thing without any regard to who might be around. I want to work with him on being more aware of his surroundings, perhaps with a type of red light, green light game to signal when people are in our immediate area. Hopefully this kind of fun activity will help him be more aware of his surroundings and begin to consider those around him more.
I am glad that you are taking the time to really consider how to best meet the needs of your students. I think that mixing in both solitary activities and group social activities would be a great way to meet BV's needs. When there are too many distractions he has difficulty, but pulling him out entirely would interfere with your ability to teach social skills- I am glad that you are seeing ALL his needs and how to address them.
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