Nova’s Ark Personal Profile

Goals/Next Steps:
Name: • Improve on linear thinking during academics
• Attentive listening: engaging in eye contact
• Strategies to allow for smooth transitions between different
*Name Cannot Be Disclosed* task
• Being aware if his surroundings: hanging up belongings
when need, walking beside those who are walking with him
instead of taking off

My strengths are… I find it hard when…

• When his daily schedule is not planned and
• Reading books not using first- then techniques
• Motivating others • When my schedule is not being followed as
• Being kind planned. Pre-planning is key.
• Being creative in building
• Carrying out tasks during helping hands

I prefer…
• Reading dogman or captain underpants
• Playing board games with a peer
• Eating lunch with a peer
• Walking around in socks
• Building task
Program goals:
• Complete 2-3 helping hand task I will tell/show you it is hard for me by…
• Smooth transitioning between activities • Verbally and what he is frustrated with
• Crying
• Grunting in frustration to turn his thoughts
into words
• Standing on two feet/ rarely sitting
• Running around and not engaged in the
task being asked

Other things that I would like you to know:

• Visual timers to prepare for transition help to stay on time
• First- then to organize task using small directional cues
• To much being asked of him at once is frustrating for him and distracts him from the task at hand