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Williams, Ben H.; And Others – 1982
The Project OMNI curriculum is intended to help students develop necessary prerequisite skills for independent travel. The teacher's guidebook provides an overview of the OMNI curriculum components (individual student inventories, individual student profiles, and curriculum modules); discusses the relation of the module areas to the mobility…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. Div. of Special Education. – 1983
To help Louisiana school systems meet state competency based education mandates, the manual presents lists of skills for those moderately, severely, and profoundly handicapped students who are receiving an alternative to a regular placement instructional program and are addressing separate minimum standards. The sequential lists are provided in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education, Daily Living Skills
Download full textWalls, 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
Erhardt, Rhoda P. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1987
A transdisciplinary therapy model that integrates visual services into the student's total educational program is illustrated by a case report of a 19-year-old male with multiple handicaps. Traditional domain areas (cognition, communication, motor, and self-help) are linked to environmental domains (domestic living, community training,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
Direct linkBennett, Deborah E.; Arvidson, Helen H.; Giorgetti, Karen – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2004
This article describes the development of a computer-based assessment system for children in early childhood programs, The Indiana Assessment System of Educational Proficiencies: Early Childhood (IASEP: EC). Skills in five developmental domains (i.e., cognitive, communication, social, sensory motor, and self-help) were selected and content…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Miles, Christine – 1990
This book describes the state of special education for students with mental disabilities in Pakistan and attempts to introduce beginning teachers to special education practice. The general nature and causes of mental disabilities are discussed, including emotional problems, genetic factors, and brain damage. Teaching methods are described,…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1992
This document is one of a series of student workbooks developed for workplace skill development courses or workshops by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and its partners. Designed to help employees empathize with others' points of view, the course is intended to teach employees to listen effectively, ask the right questions, and give…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Business Communication, Business Skills
McCarron, Lawrence; And Others – 1982
The curriculum guide was designed to teach prevocational and independent living skills to students with a wide range of handicapping conditions. The SSSQ (Street Survival Skills Questionnaire) curriculum presents information on objectives, materials, suggested performance criteria, teacher strategies, and specific students activities for the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Migrant Education. – 1978
The annotated bibliography cites 397 high-interest, low-vocabulary materials and teacher resource books for the Migrant Adult Basic Education Project (MABE), which provides literacy instruction to migrant adults during their residence in New York State. Materials are listed for language arts, reading, math, social studies, "survival" skills, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Skills, Consumer Economics
Dervin, Brenda; And Others – 1977
This study constitutes the second phase of a three-phase project whose purpose is to develop strategies for dealing with the information needs of urban residents. The focus is on how the information practitioner can effectively deal with individual citizens. From Phase I (IR 003 729), an approach, called the client-in-situation approach, was…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Communication Skills, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics
Peer reviewedKeogh, Deborah; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1987
Verbal prompts, modeling, physical guidance, positive reinforcement, fading, and chaining procedures were used to teach two nonverbal individuals (one severely and one moderately mentally retarded) an interactive signing dialogue in a naturalistic setting. Although clients learned to use signed communication, extensive training was required and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Chaining, Behavior Modification, Communication Skills
Porter, Louise – 2002
The 12 chapters in this Australian text on early childhood education of children with special needs are organized into two parts, the foundations of early years education and programming for atypical developmental needs. The 12 chapters are: (1) "Fundamentals of Early Education" (Louise Porter); (2) "Collaborating with Parents"…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedMarks, S. B. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1998
Links the literature on learned helplessness with best practices in teaching children who are deaf-blind. Defines "learned helplessness" and "mastery motivation;" considers identification of learned helplessness; and offers suggestions such as rewarding independent rather than dependent behaviors and integrating orientation, mobility, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Congenital Impairments, Daily Living Skills
Duran, Elva – 1982
Vocational and language skill development of severely retarded and autistic adolescent Hispanics is a training focus at the University of Texas, El Paso. University students and parents of the handicapped are trained in the following areas: teaching grocery shopping and how to order from fast food restaurants, teaching use of public…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
