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Download full textBrolin, Donn E. – 1997
This curriculum guide, based on the position that career education is a major focus of the educational program, is designed to assist students with disabilities to become productive workers and independent adults. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the history and importance of career education for children with disabilities. The features of career…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum
Jackson, Jeanne, Ed. – 1988
The Occupational Therapy Independent Living Skills (Transition) Program was established to serve students with severe behavioral, learning, and physical disabilities and to serve as a setting for occupational therapist training in transition programming. This manual describes this model pupil personnel training program, which prepares occupational…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems, High Schools
Texas Education Service Center Region XI, Fort Worth. – 2000
This interim report summarizes the first-year findings and activities for the Adult Outcome Component of the Texas Effectiveness Study, implemented during the 1996-97 school year. The Adult Outcome component is one of three components of the Texas Effectiveness Study that will provide information about the outcomes of special education in Texas.…
Descriptors: Adults, Daily Living Skills, Educational Planning, Followup Studies
Brolin, Donn E. – 1992
This set of curriculum-based assessment instruments is designed to measure the career education knowledge and skills of regular and special education students, as part of the Life Centered Career Education Program, a field-tested curriculum to develop competencies in daily living skills, personal-social skills, and occupational guidance and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Daily Living Skills
Orr, Alberta L.; Kaarlela, Ruth – 1990
This curriculum was designed to train approximately 250 community health representatives (CHRs), to teach visually impaired and blind Indian elders and their families necessary independent living skills. The curriculum aims to sensitize CHRs to the impact of visual impairment upon elderly persons and their families, and to provide basic…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Aging (Individuals), American Indians, Blindness
Batsche, Catherine J. – 1982
Information on vocational school psychology and resource materials are presented. After an introduction to the history of vocational school psychology, a distinction is made between career education and vocational education, and components of the vocational assessment process are examined. In addition, vocational assessment methods are discussed,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Counselor Role, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
Cosby, Jane – 1981
The author offers curriculums, teaching guides, assessment instruments, and course descriptions for teaching independent living skills to handicapped adolescents and young adults. A guide on cooking and eating is designed to teach students how to use cooking utensils, cook healthy meals, plan nutritious meals, shop wisely, and budget food…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Check Lists, Clothing, Communication Skills
Falchikov, Nancy – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1988
Discusses the concept of capability in relation to life both inside and outside the education system. A group film-making project at Edinburgh University which is designed to increase student autonomy in learning is described; problems of group process evaluation are discussed; and a self and peer process assessment questionnaire is explained. (21…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Daily Living Skills, Film Production, Foreign Countries
Orlando, Charlene A. – 1993
This practicum investigated the effectiveness of using music activities to reinforce basic money skills with 10 students, ages 12 to 21, with mental retardation in the trainable range. The program used a combination of music and visual aids as strategies for reinforcing basic money skills and improving student on-task behaviors in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Techniques, Daily Living Skills, Instructional Effectiveness
Southeastern Virginia Training Center for the Mentally Retarded, Chesapeake, VA. – 1977
To promote the deinstitutionalization of mentally retarded individuals, a three-phase assessment prescription system has been developed. It conceptualizes return to the community as a series of transfers from a restrictive non-programmatic environment (phase one) through specialized short-term program-oriented rehabilitation (phase 2) to the least…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Development
Walls, Richard T.; And Others – 1979
The document describes independent living skills, and provides information on how they can be measured. It is explained in an introductory chapter that the checklist is an extensive list of 343 independent living skill objectives specified in terms of conditions (antecedents or givens), behaviors, and standards. Objectives are classified and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Check Lists, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
Sailor, Wayne; Mix, Bonnie Jean – 1975
The TARC (Topeka Association for Retarded Citizens) Assessment System for Retarded Children is an instrument for determining the skill level of handicapped children and for indicating where remediation should take place. It is designed to provide an educational assessment on which to base precise instructional goals for individuals or a class, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Rating Scales, Children, Communication Skills
Gilleland, Dayton – 1982
This checklist is intended for use by teachers in identifying student competency levels as they pertain to the developmental process of career education while identifying special areas requiring additional teaching concentration. It can direct teachers in infusion of career education concepts into their developed classroom curriculum or aid in…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1978
The concern of educators and the general public over the decline in basic skills achievement of students nationwide has led to a national push for results-oriented instruction and educational accountability. Many states are developing tests for life-related competencies which students should master during the schooling process. States moving…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills
Brodin, Jane; Alemdar, Ingegerd – 1995
This monograph presents the final report of the Swedish component of TeleCommunity, a nine-nation European project exploring the potential of videotelephones. This particular study focused on the use of videotelephones to increase levels of independence, social integration, and participation in social life among adults with moderate mental…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Daily Living Skills, Foreign Countries
