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•What are Incidental Learning and Informal Learning?

•How do we advise people to access incidental and informal learning?

•How can we reward people when they take the initiative?

•How should we encourage people to be more independent in the learning process?

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Where do we find learning opportunities?

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Where do we find learning opportunities?

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Situations:

•Domestic

•Social

•Recreation

•Work

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Incidental and Informal Learning occur as we engage in the activities and interactions of everyday life.

As children we learn as much or more from our friends in the school yard than we do from our teachers in the classroom.
We learn about social structures, hierarchies, modes of communication and the rules and reward systems of the games we play.

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Prompting is the practice of indicating or initiating the next step in an activity.
As part of a skills development process it involves modeling or suggesting to the learner that they make the next move: “ You have turned on the oven and mixed the ingredients. The cake mix is ready to go into the pan now”.

Fading means withdrawing the prompts to increase the learner’s independence.
Remove the prompt and watch for independent action or initiative: “I won’t remind him to grease the pan yet, let’s see if he does it without me prompting him to”.

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ABA Autism Training   Chapter 3   Prompting

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You may be required to advise people on how and where your clients can access learning opportunities.

They might be family members, advocates, staff or other people in the client’s social circle.

Everyone should be given access to and supported to engage in opportunities for learning and they should be encouraged and rewarded when they show initiative and commitment.

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Encourage people to engage in learning opportunities.

Plan long term and act short term.

Adhere to the “use it or lose it” principal.

Scaffold skills one on top of another and transfer them from one activity or situation to the next.