Enhancing the Daily Living Skills of Learners with Special Needs using the Home Routine Cards

Abstract

This research focuses on the enhancement of the daily living skills of learners with special needs with the use of Home Routine Cards in the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic in which Modular Distance Learning was use as the mode of delivery of instruction to learners. For learners to become independent in the future, daily life skills are crucial. Because of this, the Home Routine Card was created. The Home Routine Card is influenced by the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and is particularly beneficial for individuals with special needs, especially those with Autism, who have limited or no means of communication. The PECS approach is an affordable and low-tech language intervention recommended by the National Autism Resources. It has been found to reduce tantrums and unusual behaviors. Moreover, this will help improve the current situation at the home of learners with special needs with the use of Home Routine Cards. The result of the study showed that the comparison between the pre-implementation and post-implementation of the usage of the Home Routine Cards to learners with special needs, it enhanced their daily living skills because it helped as a guide to what are the activities that they would likely to do in their day-to-day activity at home during this time of COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, these Home Routine Cards are beneficial to both general and special education classes as well as to their families and it has a positive effect on the learners which they can use until they grow up.