Tool "Disability awareness: Feeding Task"

Language: English

Project Featuring This Tool: All Together

Themes:Inclusion and Equality

This is part of an exercise to realise how it feels to have a disability. One of the tasks was to be fed by another person.

Time 5 minutes
Age not relevant
Date published 18 Feb 2010, 11:34

Materials

Spoons, yoghurts drinks and bibs for every participant

Step-by-step instructions

Everyone goes together in pairs. One person needs to give the another a drink, while the second's persons hands are behind their back. Then feed them the yoghurt. Then wipe their mouth. Then change roles.

Debriefing

How did it make you feel to be fed by someone else? Was it easy to eat at someone else's speed? How do you think people who are not able to feed themselves feel in this situation? What could be done to make it easier?