Personal Progress Question

[Anonymous UserParticipant]

We recently had a young women join our beehives. She operates on a 9 yr old level. I was wondering if you knew about a special needs personal progress program or ways to adapt that program for someone like her?

Thanks, Tristin Jensen

[Jenny SmithParticipant]

Regarding special needs adaptation of the personal progress program, I’d check first with LDS Ability:

http://www.ldsability.org/programs/mutual

They have a great community and can help in lots of ways. See also the following links:

http://lds.org/disability/faq/how-to?lang=eng

“After careful consideration, parents and leaders may modify the [personal progress] program to help young women with special needs. For example, they may consider the needs of young women with disabilities or educational limitations, young women who join the Church or become active in Young Women after age 16, and young women who are not Church members. When making any changes or exceptions for one person, leaders should consider the effect those changes may have on others.” (http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/young-women/10.7?lang=eng#107)

I would also suggest working with the child’s parents to adapt the program to suit this young woman’s needs. Many of the requirements for personal progress may not need any adaptation. There is a section at the end of the personal progress section where you can write your own experience, and I expect that the parent and child working on personal progress together could create meaningful experiences that would fit within each value category.

Thanks for asking about special needs personal progress — please share any experiences you have so that others can draw on them, too.

[Anonymous UserParticipant]

We have a few special needs girls in our program. We modified the program to only the required experiences and half of the projects. We or their parents have helped them with the reading and journal writing. For the journal we’ve even had them do pictures instead of words, or cutting out pictures and making a collage.

[Anonymous UserParticipant]

If you look at the online version of the Personal Progress
https://lds.org/young-women/personal-progress?lang=eng
there is an option to choose from for Special Needs. I use this with my own Aspergers daughter. She can do most of the experiences but some of them are going to be too hard for her and I don’t want her to lose interest or love of PP.

[Anonymous UserParticipant]

just modify it as the spirit guides you. talk with her mother/caretaker and really understand what she can and cannot do and where to push her and where to hold her hand and guide her. I have a son that is severely dyslexic and has some processing and retrieval issues…so for scouts and such they allow him to have his book to help remember things he should have memorized.

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