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Get REAL SaturdaysThe Entrepreneurship Education Solution
for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Barbara GaertigSpecial Education Teacher
Barnett Shoals Elementary SchoolClarke County School District
Athens, GA2009
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Get REAL Saturdays ?
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What is
Get REAL Saturdays ?
• students-teachers-parents-community group for families with children with
disabilities (primarily with Autism Spectrum Disorder)
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Whatare the objectives for
Get REAL Saturdays ?• Provide support for families with children with
autism • Provide a free program easily accessible to all
families • Provide opportunities for students with autism to
learn functional, job related, and social skills
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Get REAL Saturdays-How does it work?
Students Meeting Parents Meeting
Meets Once a month on Saturday
Morning
Lunch
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Parents Meeting
• Build a Support Team by:
- introducing learning styles
- incorporating team building activities
- addressing the topics according to the families needs and interests
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Student activities are based on the REAL curriculum
• Students learn job-related skills including:
- understanding the concept of earning, saving , and spending money
- following directions
- self-help skills (i.e. food safety preparation)
- social skills
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Formula for a Successful Meeting
• familiar structure
• visual schedule
• social stories
• visual directions for jobs and activities
• use of sign language
• behavior intervention plans
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Student Meeting Components
• transition time – students and volunteers have a chance to get to know each other
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Student Meeting Components
Social story is provided to introduce the topic for the meeting –i.e. when we were opening our business, The REAL Food Restaurant, the students were presented with a social story about the Pizza Place.
Students learned: - how the restaurant operates, how the job is divided, how the team works together.
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Student Meeting Components
• Structured activities based on the topic of the meeting.
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Student Meeting Components
• The REAL Food Restaurant is run by students
• Students prepare lunch for all participants • While working in the restaurant students
earn the “REAL” money• Students learn job related skills including:
rules about food safety, team work, job division, customer service, following the rules and procedures , and more…
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The REAL Food Restaurant
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How We Earn Real Bucks ?
• Get REAL Saturdays Program does not get financial support from the school budget, therefore we found other ways of funding
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Drive-By Pumpkin Patch
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Silent Auction
Bake Sale
ACT Grant – Athens Council for Transition
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