Phase 1

Phase 1

Phase 1 was the introductory period where get to know the work culture and introduce ourselves to the trainees there. The adults training to work there, age ranging from 20s to 50s, are referred to as “trainees”. All the trainees have some form of learning difficulties (e.g. mainly autism). After getting to know them better by observing their work skills in packaging and conversing with them, we formulated a way to categorise all the trainees for the ease of managing our information and tailoring our activities for them. That being said, we understand that all trainees are unique and have their respective strengths and weaknesses. We grouped them in a simple way as shown below:

Type I Verbal + Capable	Type II Verbal + Non-Capable	Type III Non- Verbal + Capable	Type IV Non-Verbal + Non-Capable
Able to converse Capable.	Able to converse Not as capable	Unable to converse Capable.	Unable to converse Not as Capable.

With the categorizations made, we identified the respective individuals and placed them into the appropriate groups. From then on, we carried out activities for each of them, whereby the type of activity varied slightly for each group. We carried out simple activities which targeted their fine motor skills and cognitive skills. The activities that we carried out were as follows:

Fine Motor Skills: Picking up beans with chopsticks, putting a thread through a bead, writing
Cognitive Skills: Card matching, “donkey” card game

We found that every trainee had their own set of capabilities. Some are strong in one activity but weak in another, some could do well in everything. After this phase, we recategorized some of trainees as we better understood their capabilities after observing their activity performances.