Adaptive Daily Living Skills
“Teach a Person to Fish…”
Occupations are activities people want or need to do throughout their day and life. Adaptive Daily Living Skills at BALANCE works alongside blind and partially-sighted people to prevent and break down barriers that get in the way of full participation and/or inclusion. You can access ADLS as part of individual service or in a group setting.
At BALANCE, adaptive daily living skills (ADLS) can help with:
- Making your home more accessible
- Facilitating making decisions about how and what activities to participate in, including weighing the pros and cons
- Promoting well-being, including your mental and physical health, through activity
- Learning about different strategies to engage in occupation
- Recommending assistive equipment and working with you to obtain it, including applying for funding
- Managing vision loss in addition to other disabilities or medical conditions
- Connecting with resources in your community related to occupation
Adaptive Daily Living Skills may help you by doing the following:
- Doing a formal assessment or an informal assessment, such as a discussion of your needs or asking you to show how you currently do an activity
- Working together to come up with a plan for making a change in how you do activities (or even try new ones!)
- Teaching you a new skill or way of doing something and practicing it together
- Checking in with you to see how you are progressing towards goals, and changing the plan if needed.
- Collaborating with your other service providers at BALANCE if challenges arise
- Being your partner in advocating for services or supports
Like all services at BALANCE, ADLS is client-centered and works towards self-identified activities that are important. You are the expert in your own life, while the ADLS is an expert in how to adapt activity, and you work together as a team to make a change.