Within ACL 5.6 the person requires one hint to complete three single cordovan stitches.
They are able to judge secondary consequences on surface properties during the stenciling activity and will prevent surface property mistakes by taping down the stencil without cues, and practicing new effects on scrap paper.
They will prevent bubbles from occurring on the vinyl covering by smoothing the bubbles out before they begin to iron the vinyl in place.
The differential is between evaluating primary effects and creating secondary effects with images. The differential is complicated and requires the application of the definitions of spatial fit for ACL 5.4 and surface appearances for ACL 5.6.
Interviews
People functioning within ACL 5 can talk and tell you about their history in doing activities. Educational and work histories are safe places to start an interview. Standardized interviews rarely help in the selection of activities because the person usually tells you what they think you want to hear.
Asking them to describe a typical day prior to the onset of this decrease in ability to function can provide information about the number of hours that are apt to be vacant now. Listen for clues and ask questions about activities that contain the quality of information that captures their attention now. Informal conversations and reminiscing about activities they used to do can give you leads on the type of activities that are apt to appeal to them.
Can Say & Can Do
Try to verify their pattern of performance with activities that appeal to the individual. When the person is giving you no clues, use the examples of activities. No single activity can predict a pattern of performance because people are too variable.
When a person has a history of doing arts and crafts, do your best to verify their ACL score with an activity that is new to the individual. Within ACL 5, the evaluation of overt trial and error learning abilities is apt to be too high when the person uses prior knowledge. The repeated question is; "Have you ever done anything like this before?" If yes, try to identify an activity they have not done and is not toxic. Iron-on bonding for fabric appliques is often an unfamiliar product.
Getting Acquainted
Do strive to get a comprehensive picture of who this person is, which should include: how well they are functioning now (current ACL), how well they have been functioning (prior ACL), what kind of activities they like to do, and what kind of social and financial supports they can depend upon.
To Verify
To verify the ability to prevent secondary effects on surface properties, observe the person's daily behavior. Are they able to prevent contamination of supplies by isolating contaminants? Does the person stop to think before acting when using materials with surface appearances and take precautions? Are they able to use quick setting glues which take seconds to set?
Other activities are like stenciling with surface appearance errors that can be avoided when people take them into consideration. Take the following list of stenciling errors and see how many similarities you can find. Have some fun and turn it into a game with teams and a treasure hunt for the first phase. During the second phase have a random draw for new teams because the evaluation of entries could get hot and heavy. The second phase will need to establish objective evaluation criteria to qualify entries or disqualify them. The second phase is about what qualifies as a verification of an ACL score. The stenciling properties that verify are:
- Taping down of the stencil to avoid contamination when the stencil slides.
- Using masking tape on adjacent cut-outs to prevent paint contamination.
- Regular wiping to clean paint off of their fingers in case they touched the wet stencil.
To Rule Out
The secondary consequences of spatial fit will probably fail to catch the person's attention. Try the salt dough activity and see if they are preventing the uncooked dough from being crushed. To do that, one must be careful about how they transport the dough. Avoid giving any hints or instructions, such as carefully carrying the soft unset dough in a paper napkin or baking paper before setting it in a microwave.