Last year one of our teachers, Will Pike, completed his Massey DOM Community Supporters Certificate. As part of team collaboration with Mel Harvey, Will works with Nikki, a secondary school student, twice a week to both practise and grow her mobility skills so that she learns to travel safely. The team’s long term goal is for Nikki to become an independent traveler.
In the short term, Will works with Nikki to develop confidence in moving around the local mall and to locate items in the supermarket. The school team and the BLENNZ team have been working together on a range of interconnected tasks that support Nikki’s learning.
The school food technology teacher works with Nikki to write a list of ingredients required for the next cooking lesson.
Once the list is ready Will walks with Nikki to the supermarket to price the food items and Devi from BLENNZ, who also supports Nikki’s learning, uses the information from the supermarket trip to develop math activities around managing money.
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