Based on the program known as the Secondary Individualized Learning Center developed at the Lexington School for the Deaf (Jackson Heights, New York), the resource guide provides a curriculum for severely handicapped deaf adolescents, who, because of their deafness and added learning or physical problems, are unable to successfully function in the…

The article discusses some critical issues in career education for handicapped secondary students. (Author/DLS)

Strategies for teaching life skills are presented (such as role playing). Specific topic areas covered in the course are presented (career awareness, life-style determination, budget preparation, insurance, consumer law, and investments). The author also discusses interjecting other life situations, handling student departures, and developing…

The author states that marketing is a basic skill that is important in the workplace and in various social contexts. Thus, he advocates that a basic marketing course be required of all high school students. A plan to achieve this goal is presented. (CH)

This book presents 30 first-person accounts by teenagers that tell how they overcame major life obstacles. Many aren't the everyday problems most kids encounter, which makes their stories especially compelling-and their successes especially inspiring. The young writers wrote their stories to help teenagers with similar problems and stresses. The…

Describes the Work Study and Special Needs Programs of the Cleveland Public Schools, which were based on the rationale that assisting handicapped students to become economically self-supporting is necessary for self-growth and self-respect. The program focuses upon career awareness and personal guidance preparation and support. (JOW)

The use of the telephone directory as a learning tool with learning disabled adolescents is described. A general information worksheet and a white and yellow pages worksheet are reproduced. It is explained that the exercises develop an important survival skill. (PHR)

Three adolescents with moderate mental handicaps were taught bedmaking skills through a technique which involved dividing the entire chain into sections, teaching the first section in a total cycle fashion, and adding instruction on subsequent sections in a forward chaining manner. The technique promoted skill acquisition and substantial…

Two experiments examined visual cues as a means for four severely mentally retarded secondary-age students to order in fast-food restaurants. The experiments involved training in school-based simulated environments or in community restaurants. Use of the visual cues was quite effective and easily generalized. Previous experiments with similar…

Criticizes life skills curricula based on inherent ideological dimensions which transform the complexity of life processes into a set of skills. Perceives links between recent curriculum initiatives and wider administrative processes, which use the broad concept of skills to organize relations between education and the labor market. (DMM)

The book provides suggestions for activities designed to infuse life skills into the basic curriculum for adolescents and older students with disabilities. Modeled after the Life Centered Career Education approach, the book presents activities geared to three domains (sample competencies in parentheses): (1) daily living skills (managing family…

A method of developing programs which are both functional and developmentally appropriate for severely/profoundly handicapped adolescents is described. The method integrates adult referenced activities with training of the activities' developmental precursors. (Author/DB)

This document describes a review of the North Allegheny (Pennsylvania) School District's Family and Consumer Sciences curriculum in order to develop a program that will meet students' needs to integrate family, work, and citizenship. Through intensive research, site visits to other school districts around the country, survey data, resource…

Discusses life skills instruction in the transition education of adolescents with disabilities. The relationship of life skills instruction to the transition process, curricular issues related to students with special needs, models for teaching life skills, options for covering life skills in the curriculum, and cultural considerations are…