The Arts and Crafts group meets one to two days per week with an average of four to six clients. The Support Staff and clients meet once per month to discuss ideas and plan projects for the following month. Often projects relate to themes, seasons and even to the disabilities specific to the client. Clients are given alternative choices if they are not interested in participating with the current project.

Occupational Therapy

1. Initiation and Termination: Ability to appropriately start and end a project.
2. Self-Expression: Able to express individual ideas, creativity, interests, etc.
3. Fine/Gross Motor Skills: Able to effectively operate and manipulate craft items such as beads, pencils, scissors, paper, etc.
4. Motor Plan: Demonstrate ability to plan and execute movement needed throughout the project.
5. Problem Solving: Determining cause and effect while working on project.
6. Sequencing: Correctly sequencing steps to making the specific project.
7. Attention to Detail: Ability to look at a model of the project and replicate each component by noticing details.

Physical Therapy

Not applicable at this time.

Speech Language Pathology

1. Auditory Comprehension: will follow directions.
2. Reading Comprehension: will read any written materials required.
3. Verbal Expression: demonstrate word retrieval and thought formulation.
4. Pragmatics: demonstrate appropriate social interaction.

Psychology

1. To increase awareness of the environment.
2. To respond with purposeful gestures or words.
3. To ask for assistance to meet one’s needs.
4. To develop increasing competence to meet one’s needs.
5. To initiate spontaneous interaction.
6. To exercise self-control.
7. To demonstrate the ability to monitor one’s behavior.
8. To demonstrate an awareness of one’s deficits.
9. To incorporate treatment goals into action.
10. To use emotional outlet for frustration, anger and discouragement related to the changes in functional status.
11. To use strategies to alleviate stress.
12. To use recreational therapy to learn new coping strategies and diversional activities.
13. To alleviate or decrease pain.

Vocational Therapy

1. Interest: To have an opportunity to experience working on projects that may develop into vocational or avocational interests.
2. Creativity: To demonstrate the ability and confidence to create a project using natural skills.
3. Initiation and Termination: To demonstrate the ability to appropriately start and end a project.