Tool "Feeding Task"

Project Featuring This Tool: AllTogether Inclusion Training Course

Summary

During the week we did a task to learn what it felt like to have a disability. One of the tasks was to be fed by another person.

Tool Details

Time 5 minutes
Approximate number of participants 2
Age 15+
Target group young people with disabilities
Theme disability
Date published 18 Feb 2010, 11:34

Materials

Two Spoons Two Yoghurt Two Drinks Two Bibs

Step-by-step guide

  1. Grab the materials
  2. Find two people
  3. First make one of the give the other person a drink, while their hands are behind their back so they cannot use them
  4. Next feed them the yoghurt
  5. Wipe their mouth and then swap around

Debriefing/evaluation

At first this task was quite embarrassing to have to feed each other, and we both thought of it as a joke, but after a while it got frustrating not being able to move your arms and sitting their with yoghurt around your mouth.

It was also quite annoying when the other person would rush you with both the water and the yoghurt.

This maybe a task of a carer of a disabled person, who might be paralysed or unable to feed themself.

Sophie and Carmen:)