It’s time for a quiz!

• 1. A picture will appear on the screen

• 2. I will ask you, the audience, to identify
the picture, if you can
• 3. If you know the answer, please raise
your hand
• 4. If I call on you, please tell me what you
think the picture is and what it is used for
• 5. Any questions?
What is this?
What is this?
What is this?
What is this?
The Study
To use a recipe – not a piece of cake.
Students with mild intellectual disabilities’
use of recipes in home economics
 Mild Intellectual Disability
What is it?
• Intellectual functioning areas have issues with:
• Abilities to learn
• Reasoning
• Making decisions
• Solving problems
• Adaptive behaviour issues include:
• ability to communicate effectively
• interactions with others
• taking care of oneself
Recipe Components
Recipe Components
Problem #1

Kitchen
• Example: Instruction to crumble
Related Tasks yeast into bread dough

• Repetition repetition repetition

Solution

• Math tasks
Example • Social studies
Problem #2
• Too much information in one step of the recipe

1. Add half of milk to 1. Add half of milk to flour

flour, beat to rid flour of 2. Beat until smooth
lumps, add rest of milk 3. Add remainder of milk
Problem #3

Recipe not explicitly listing instructions

Confusion

Clear instructions
Problem #4
• Missing details in the recipe
Problem #5
Problem #6
• Lack of explanation of specific vocabulary
 Repetition

Eliminate unnecessary instructions

Clear instructions

Include pictures

Purpose – answer the why/what

questions

Explain unknown vocabulary

 Any
questions?