Importance Of Adapting Activities And Environment

Adapting activities and environment:

Empowering people through autonomy, which means giving people freedom to make their own decision, is important as people should have control of their own lives so they don’t feel as if someone else is controlling their life for them e.g. making their own decisions in the activity. If they aren’t empowered in their choices then it would lead to the individual being left behind in the activities carried out and therefore be unable to enjoy the activity to its maximum extent. The individual may face barriers in the activity due to their lack of ability for example they might be in a wheel chair which means they need more space to move around so the furniture would need to rearranged or if they have language …show more content…
Another problem could be time. If the member of staff have a short amount of time to find out all the details needed to give the individual the maximum choice, then the individual would be short of things important for them to be fully in control. For example in the activity of making bookmarks, if the member of staff didn’t have the right time limit before the arrival of the individual to find out all the necessary information about them, then problems could occur if the individual had a disability which caused them to be less able to do the activity than the others. So because the member of staff ran out of time to process the needed actions to cover this problem, the individual would have a disadvantage in the …show more content…
It also helps recognize a person’s personality so that trust can be strengthened between the staff and the individual. Care providers can empower the individuals by giving a range of communication methods according to the individual themselves. For example if an individual is deaf or has poor hearing, then the staff could provide sign language to fill the gaps in communication between the staff and the individual. This would mean that information would get across easier and that the individual wouldn’t feel confused about what’s happening therefore feel included. However, there’s an extent to how much options of communication can be provided as sometimes the type of communication needed by the individual cannot be accessed. For example, if the person in care is deaf, then someone who can help with sign language may need to be available, but if they can’t be there at the time of the activity, the individual would not be able to communicate with the staff and lack understanding of what’s going on, excluding the individual from the