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Steps To Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs

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Bruce L Baker, Alan Brightman, Jan B Blacher

  • Steps To Independence
  • Steps To Independence
    Hands on resources that's helped thousands of parents: proven strategies to teach life skills children need to live as independently as possible

376 pages
Interest Age: 3 to 25
2003
ISBN: 9781557666970

A hands on resources that's already helped thousands of other parents, this book gives you proven strategies for teaching the life skills children from age 3 through young adulthood need to live as independently as possible. You'll start with an easy-to-read overview of teaching methods, go deeper with a step-by-step guide to teaching seven types of skills: get-ready, self-help, toilet training, play, self-care, home care, functional academic. This edition will also help you:

  • manage behaviour challenges, from identifying the problem and examining behaviour to encouraging alternative behaviours
  • strengthen partnerships with other teachers in the child's life during IEP meetings, through classroom volunteer work, and in everyday communication with them
  • use technology- such as email, instant messaging, internet communities, search engines, and software- as a source of information and support

Based on more than 30 years of work with parents like you and laced with humour, illustrations, and vignettes, Steps to Independence is a trusted guidebook you'll want to keep close at hand as your child grows.

Table of Contents

I. Basics of Teaching (STEPS TO...)

  1. Setting Out
  2. Targeting a Skill
  3. Establishing Steps
  4. Picking Rewards
  5. Setting the Stage
  6. Teaching
  7. Observing Progress and Troubleshooting

II. Skill Teaching

  1. Get-Ready Skills
  2. Self-Help Skills
  3. Toilet Training
  4. Play Skills
  5. Independent Living: Self-Care Skills
  6. Independent Living: Home-Care Skills
  7. Independent Living: Functional Academic Skills

III. Behavior Problem Management

  1. Identifying Behavior Problems
  2. Examining Behavior
  3. Beginning a Behavior Management Program: Part One: Consequences
  4. Beginning a Behavior Management Program: Part Two: Antecedents and Alternative Behaviors

IV. Supporting Independence

  1. Computing: Now It's Personal
  2. Partnership With Your Child's Other Teachers

Appendices

  • A: Get-Ready Skills
  • B: Self-Help Skills Inventory
  • C: Self-Help Skills Programs
  • D: Play Skills Programs
  • E: Functional Academic Skills Programs

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