Intellectual disabilities affect learning capabilities and affect social and people skills such as care for others, compassion to nurture and empathy to see another individual’s perspective. The area is particularly required for caring for others, especially with pets such as dogs, birds, and cats. The need for pets however provides various social skills such as time management, empathy for others, and assisting the well-being of others. Each year would see International Cat Day as an occasion to celebrate the need for and importance of owning or caring for a cat.
The Easy Read Toolbox aimed to assist with intellectual disabilities as a way to assist with improving learning with a simple and easy layout through icons and small sentences. To assist with International Cat Day is to convey how cats assist with relieving the mind and assist with social or life skills in an unforeseen manner. Owning or cawing a cat provides common routines such as vet checks, feeding the cat, feeding the cat and ensuring a cat has physical activity. Doing so ensures these skills are carried out in life outside such as empathy for other’s needs, organisation for ticking off routines or relieving a mind during particularly stressful periods.
The set of icons was introduced in celebration of International Cat Day by communicating the common routines and outcomes of owning a cat, with a focus on the need to own a cat. The reasons vary from ensuring cats have a shelter and are not in the wildlife, as well as owning a cat creates happiness for both the cat and owner. The designs would capture the common practices such as a cat playing with an owner, the requirement to buy feed, steps of a cat eating from a cat’s food bowel or a cat sleeping with a person in Bed. The designs ensure the users are educated about the life and routine of cats and hopefully improve communication on the need and importance of owning a cat.
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