2/14/13

Today I was working at the middle school with the O&M instructor. We could only work with one study today as the other 2 were testing. To also allow the room to be more quiet for the 2 testing we decided to take this student out into the community. Since it was Valentine's Day, the student wanted to purchase some gifts for his family. The student chose the store we were to visit and then verbally gave directions to the Vision program driver as we headed to our destination of a nearby CVS store. This was the closest store with a variety of items. The student independently entered the store from the van. He located the card section after some verbal guidance from the instructor on the layout of the store. The instructor read a variety of Valentine cards to the student and the student chose a musical card for his parents. The student then decided to purchase some Valentine candy for his sister. Again with some verbal descriptions of the store layout, the student independently located the candy aisle. The instructor gave him verbal descriptions of the various candy items and he student decided  purchase a large chocolate Hershey kiss. Once he chose his items the instructor took him to a  nearby counter where he tallied up a general estimate of the cost of the items and then the student counted out his money to have ready to purchase it. Once he had it counted he went to the cashier and paid for his items. Then on the trip back to the school he was able to correctly reverse the route verbally to the driver. Another successful trip!