We are kind of on pause mode for RDI - will restart it in May after our assessment with our consultant. In the meantime, we are also looking at what other things would be required for DS to be relatively independent.
Two weeks ago, i was assembling something - looking at the instructions. I was thinking it would be key for DS to develop that ability; even if were to keep a job later on. He reading the map kind of strengthened my belief that DS is ready for smaller "instruction manuals". DW and I are working on possibilities of giving out "instruction sheet" kind of thing to him. For e.g., cooking something would be the title and the 2-3 instructions around it; For eg, it would look like:
(1) cut vegetables
(2) heat wet vegetable
I call each one of the above as compound instruction which has sub-instructions in it (or micro instructions, if you are hardware engineer) - cut vegetables would break down to take out the vegetables he likes, possibly clean it, take the cutting board and cut them; and so on. So, it would help him not only to learn about instructions and also pause and make him think.
The other one is fractions. We are tending to use that more at home; give him a bunch of discrete and countable things (eats generally - like pistachio etc and tell him to give half to others; or 2/3rd to others, when there is 3 of it etc. The hope is that he gets the concept after which the learning could be easier.
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