MHDD 130 - Teaching Life Skills

1. Identify the major categories of functional life skills, including communication skills, social skills, cognitive skills (such as problem solving), vocational skills, independent living skills, leisure skills, etc.
2. Identify and describe techniques and tools for assessing life skills in persons with disabilities.
3. Complete a life skills assessment using direct and/or indirect observation of a person.
4. Describe the interdisciplinary team process for planning and writing a life skills teaching program, including use of task analysis and reinforcement.
5. Describe and demonstrate specific techniques for teaching social and communication skills to persons with disabilities.
6. Describe and demonstrate specific techniques for teaching self-care, safety, health and emergency response skills.
7. Describe and demonstrate specific techniques for teaching recreation and leisure skills to persons with disabilities.
8. Describe and demonstrate specific techniques for teaching community activity skills, such as mobility/transportation skills and use of community resources.
9. Describe and demonstrate techniques for teaching vocational skills to persons with disabilities.
10. Describe supported living and supported employment services available to persons with disabilities.
11. Describe the use of job/task analysis and job adaption related to employment of persons with disabilities.
12. Describe the roles of job development and job coaching in supported employment settings.
13. Describe the documentation and progress evaluation methods for assessing outcomes of teaching life skills.
14. Describe the major provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
15. Describe adaptive technologies currently available to assist persons with disabilities live more independently.