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PreVocational/Vocational Activities

Vocational and prevocational activities are ones that help to prepare students for a future job they may pursue as they get older.  Autistic children will hopefully be able to go out into the world either on their own or in a supported setting to gain employment so they will live as independently as possible.  In the classroom it is important to give children a chance to experience what sorts of tasks they may encounter in the workplace.  Some examples of these tasks are: sorting, putting objects together, alphabetizing, filing, data entry, and packaging items.  Of course there are many others and each of the ones I listed can be done in an infinite number of ways.  In general parents and teachers can come up with their own set of tasks based on their community and what types of jobs they see fit for the child. 

Resources:

This website gives a prevocational checklist so that one may see what areas the child needs work on.  This checklist would be great for any teachers or parents that are working on these skills and would like to know what skills the child is mastering and which ones need work.

 

  • How to Teach Prevocational Skills to Severely Handicapped Persons by Dennis Mithaug.  Published by H & H Enterprises, 1981.

 

This book is really a how to handbook for teaching prevocational skills.  It even has step by step instructions for being successful in this endeavor.  This book would really benefit teachers that are struggling to have success in teaching prevocational skills.

*can be purchased through Yahoo! shopping

 

Shoeboxtasks.com is a website one can go to buy prevocational activities.  Although the tasks tend to be expensive they are quite useful and save a teacher a great deal of time in creating activities.