There are also 4 areas of key skills that are explicitly taught through each faculty of learning focussing on developing effective communication, positive behaviour, functional movement and thinking & problem solving skills which are inter-transactional and foundational for life-long learning.
Key Skills
Behaviour & Awareness
- To interact appropriately with others & their environment.
- To develop more effective executive functioning skills; working memory, attention, emotional awareness, task initiation and completion, planning, organising and flexibility.
- To learn positive appropriate behaviours and understand that all behaviours have natural consequences.
Communication & Language
- To understand and be understood.
- To enhance their ability to communicate in a functional way in their environment & to become successful communicators with others.
- To make sense of their world, both in understanding and expressing their wishes, needs and emotions.
Movement & Co-ordination
- Be active and interactive.
- Developing spacial awareness when moving, co-ordinating and controlling small and large movements.
- Use tools and equipment effectively, communication when help is needed.
- Playing co-operatively and making healthy choices.
Thinking Skills & Problem Solving
- To learn and manage information by sequencing, ordering, classifying, comparing, predicting and understanding cause and effect.
- To be curious, observing, asking questions and solving problems.
- To learn alongside and with others, actively listen, share opinions and participate.