Activities for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Two weeks later and our daughter is somewhat independent with playing games with her support worker!!

During COVID 19, our support worker for our daughter is unable to work in our home and like many of you we were concerned about her engagement and missing her routine. We had to get creative in keeping her engaged and finding things for her to do. I work for a school division and schools were going online, so I thought maybe we should set up a routine for our daughter to also be online. Now not all activities are great for online interactions, so we started by digging out of her favorite games and sent photos of the games to her support worker. Her support worker sets one of the games as her backgroud in ZOOM and plays a game (or two) with our daughter daily. They also work out daily too. We use an extra camera (my phone) to display the actual game board and over the last two weeks our daughter now looks forward to these games and is becoming fairly independent. Activities include BINGO, Opposites, and Prepositions from Super Duper Speech, step-by-step crafts (found on Youtube), and reading activities from News-2-You. Please share other ideas for keeping your unique adult engaged during COVID 19.

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