Affiliation:
1. F.A.M.I.L.I.E.S. Project, Frank Porter Graham Child
Development Center, School of Education Division of Special Education University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2. School of Education University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
3. Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Abstract
Mealtimes serve important social and educational functions for all children. This article reports an observational study of the extent to which teachers of handicapped and nonhandicapped preschoolers use mealtimes to teach and practice functional skills. The lunch routine (pre-eating activities, physical setting, food service, mealtime interaction, posteating activities, organizing the mealtime routine, and teaching during mealtime) was observed in 40 preschool classrooms (20 handicapped and 20 nonhandicapped programs). Although the meals observed were warm and pleasant experiences, teachers generally did not capitalize on the potential of meals for teaching and reinforcing functional skills. Implications of these findings are discussed, and a sequence of mealtime instructional targets is provided.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Education
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