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Apr 29, 2024
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MHDD 130 - Teaching Life Skills Credits: 3 Description Study of teaching functional life skills to persons with disabilities, including persons with physical, social, vocational, communicative, intellectual, cognitive, and other mental disabilities.
Student Learning Outcomes
- 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.
- Identify and describe techniques and tools for assessing life skills in persons with disabilities.
- Complete a life skills assessment using direct and/or indirect observation of a person.
- Describe the interdisciplinary team process for planning and writing a life skills teaching program, including use of task analysis and reinforcement.
- Describe and demonstrate specific techniques for teaching social and communication skills to persons with disabilities.
- Describe and demonstrate specific techniques for teaching self-care, safety, health and emergency response skills.
- Describe and demonstrate specific techniques for teaching recreation and leisure skills to persons with disabilities.
- Describe and demonstrate specific techniques for teaching community activity skills, such as mobility/transportation skills and use of community resources.
- Describe and demonstrate techniques for teaching vocational skills to persons with disabilities.
- Describe supported living and supported employment services available to persons with disabilities.
- Describe the use of job/task analysis and job adaption related to employment of persons with disabilities.
- Describe the roles of job development and job coaching in supported employment settings.
- Describe the documentation and progress evaluation methods for assessing outcomes of teaching life skills.
- Describe the major provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
- Describe adaptive technologies currently available to assist persons with disabilities live more independently.
Prerequisite: None
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