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Counselling Technique

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Counseling Technique.

Students with disabilities require counseling to learn basic skills essential for individual living.  Hygiene is one of the factors challenging teenagers with disabilities. Going the extra mile of doing their personal cleaning, such as showering, brushing teeth, and maintaining their hair, seems very tedious. Therefore they may fail to take care of themselves. This article will learn how counselors help teenagers with disabilities maintain their personal hygiene skills such as washing hands, brushing teeth, and washing their clothes and body.

There are various techniques counselors should use to encourage disabled tees on their hygiene improvement. Among them is task analysis (Weiss, 2018). Task analysis is a technique for summarizing a complex skill into a minor one, which can be easily managed. For example, brushing teeth involves going for a toothbrush, toothpaste, and a glass of water. Then, put the toothpaste on the brush and start brushing the bottom teeth, followed by the top, rinsing your mouth, then cleaning the brush and returning all the tools to their storage place. Task analysis involves allowing the student to focus on a particular task at a time; hence they can capture the ideas stepwise. The counselor ought to congratulate the student upon learning each step to encourage them and promote their esteem.

Applying the task analysis in doing laundry, the student should be taught how to do it step by step allowing him/her to grasp every step before going to the next one. You can break down the steps like this; collect all the dirty clothes, sort the clothes based on color, open the laundry machine, put the colored clothes first, add soap, and turn the machine on to start cleaning. Task analysis will help students learn how to work on their own.

In conclusion, students with disabilities ought to be taught how to maintain their personal hygiene independently. Task technique is the best technique for counseling students on maintaining hygiene because they can learn how to do each step on their own.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Weiss, S., Markowetz, R., & Kiel, E. (2018). How to teach students with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities in inclusive and special education settings: Teachers’ perspectives on skills, knowledge and attitudes. European Educational Research Journal, 17(6), 837-856.