Best Practices – Provider

Practice
Kitty Adams has assisted two individuals with making a photo album recipe book using labels from the ingredients necessary to make the recipe.  The photo album has various recipes of the individual’s choosing (such as chop suey). Since both individuals have difficulty with reading, the provider came up with a creative way to help them know what ingredients are needed for each recipe.  The recipes in this book are ones that do not require specific measuring, and are casserole recipes or one dish recipes. The provider assists the individual with taking the labels (stewed tomatoes label, macaroni label, ground beef label, etc.) off of all the ingredients needed to make the recipe.  In the example of the chop suey recipe which requires an onion, she pressed the skin of the onion just like you would press a flower in a photo album.  The various labels and onion skin were placed on the photo album page under the plastic film that would normally cover your pictures in the album.   On the top of the plastic film, each label had a piece of Velcro.  A second label or pressed onion was then laminated with a Velcro piece on the back.  The individual was able to match the labels and the onion to its corresponding place in the album.  This has helped the individuals to take the top labels and go to the store to independently purchase all of the ingredients they need for this particular recipe and when the come home they are able to match the pictures back up with the ones in the album (the ones placed under the film) so that the ingredients for each recipe do not get mixed up.

Who Benefits? The individuals receiving services benefit .
How? Because, the practice promotes practical learning and independence.