Curriculum Skill: "Experiencing, Recognising and Observing Simple Commands"
GLD Level: Moderate
Curricular Area: Communication and Language
Curricular Strand: Receptive and Expressive Language
Strand Unit: Competence and Confidence in using Language / Attained / Extended
Acquiring / Becoming Fluent / Maintenance / Generalisation / Application / Adaptation
Attends to spoken or gestural instruction in familiar and generalised situations;
- listens to and is guided into appropriate response for ‘give me’, ‘where is?’, ‘show me’
Follows short visual or verbal instructions for familiar activities with decreasing assistance;
- starts getting ready to go home when shown objects of reference for coat and car / follows two or three sequenced pictures to carry out routine activity such as washing hands, dressing after swimming / follows a short video sequence for getting a particular piece of equipment in the classroom / responds to verbal recording
Points to familiar people in response to command ‘show me’, ‘point to’
Points to familiar objects on request
Responds to command ‘no’.
With decreasing assistance, responds to spoken or gesturalinstruction in familiar and generalised situations;
- ‘give me’‘where is?’ ‘show me’
Experience, recognise and observe simple commands;
- look, listen, watch
Give appropriate motor response to command;
- sit, stand, run
Follows instructions which involve carrying out an action on an object;
- turn on the light, pick up your bag.
Follows more complex gestural, pictorial or verbal instructions – a series of related commands
- ‘take the milk out of the bag and put it in the fridge’.
Carries out a sequence of instructions;
- follow steps for selfcareroutines/work activities, remember directions to a place
Give a simple instruction to another student
The Curriculum Access Tool for Students with General Learning Disability (CAT-GLD) is a framework developed by the Special Education Support Service based on the Guidelines for Teachers of Students with General Learning Disabilities produced by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment.