3/14/18 Met with client for a 5.5 hour work shift at Kinsley’s Shoprite. This is IM’s regular worksite but had two new students and a new job coach with her. IM was very friendly and talkative from the moment the job coach got her from school. She was very helpful showing her classmates and job coach around the store, who the supervisor we should report to was and where the breakroom was located. It was kind of difficult to get her to focus on curriculum which was the first half hour of the work day. Curriculum consisted of a worksheet that had various grocery items where IM had to guess which aisle # the item would be in then we went around the store to check. She took a while to fill in all her guesses and didn’t pay much attention to writing the correct aisle numbers. IM was very initiative with her work up until we went on break 1. We had a half hour working period from break 1 to lunch and throughout that time IM kept going on her phone. She would stop in the middle of aisles and around the store. This caused her to disrupt customers by stopping short and/or running into others. The job coach tried numerous times to redirect her back to her work and to not text and walk around the store. After lunch IM was on her phone less and focused more on identifying the items in her return cart and putting them correctly back on the shelf. IM showed great initiative at the end of shift by going over to the cashiers and asking if they had returns, since there were no more returns in the designated return cart. IM was on her phone trying to text her mom and ended up running into her in the store the last half hour of the shift. IM’s mom told her to put her phone away and she finished her shift phone free.
IM likes to talk and conversate with friends and peers. It is difficult for IM to let her texts go and identify the appropriate times to check her phone. The job coach put IM in charge of pushing the cart when she wasn’t putting the items away, so she had something to focus on at all times. Her responsibility of pushing the cart and redirection from her job coach made her go on her phone less frequently. What worked the best was when mom told her to put her phone away while she’s working.
IM’s next work shift is 3/19/18. What may be beneficial is having IM keep her phone in her purse and only allow use during breaks. Another beneficial treatment plan may be mom teaching IM the appropriate time to use her phone.
IM likes to talk and conversate with friends and peers. It is difficult for IM to let her texts go and identify the appropriate times to check her phone. The job coach put IM in charge of pushing the cart when she wasn’t putting the items away, so she had something to focus on at all times. Her responsibility of pushing the cart and redirection from her job coach made her go on her phone less frequently. What worked the best was when mom told her to put her phone away while she’s working.
IM’s next work shift is 3/19/18. What may be beneficial is having IM keep her phone in her purse and only allow use during breaks. Another beneficial treatment plan may be mom teaching IM the appropriate time to use her phone.