Effecting Change in School-Based Practice: Fostering Social Inclusion in a Co-occupation Program

During the early days of my career, I worked in a non-categorical self-contained kindergarten through second grade classroom. I was trying to help a student, Jimmy, learn to feed himself using a spoon; Jimmy demonstrated the motor skills necessary to feed himself but had become accustomed to having an adult feed him. When required to feed himself, he cried and resisted. The entire team struggled to foster his independence, but to their frustration, were unable to do