building bridges for special needs adults
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Building Bridges for Special Needs Adults. Jennifer Coffey, MSIS Rebecca Sexton, MSIS. Funding and Planning. Overview What When Where Identifying need Funding Benchmarking. Manuals. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Building Bridges for Special Needs Adults
Jennifer Coffey, MSISRebecca Sexton, MSIS
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Funding and Planning
• Overviewo What o When o Where
• Identifying need
• Funding
• Benchmarking
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Manuals
• Books for Dessert: Program Manual Guide for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Port Washington, New York: Port Washington Public Library. 2009. Print.
• Fish, Tom and Paula Rabidoux, et. al. The Next Chapter Book Club (NCBC): A Community Literacy Program for People with Intellectual Disabilities manual. Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House, 2009. Print.
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Partnering with Area Agencies• Identifying area facilities
o School districtso Area volunteer groupso State agencies
• Colleges and universitieso Recruitment of volunteerso Alternative avenues
• Long Term Care Quality Reporting System. “Residential Care for persons with mental retardation.” Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services. 27 October 2010. facilityquality.dads.state.tx.us/qrs/public/qrs.do?page=home&lang=en&mode=P&dataSet=2
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www.adultedcontentstandards.org/default.asp
Reading Level AssessmentAdult Education Content Standards Warehouse
Tom Fish and Paula Rabidoux, et. al.
The Next Chapter Book Club (NCBC): A Community
Literacy Program for People with Intellectual Disabilities
manual.
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The Program
• Importance of structure
• Summer schedule
• Weekly agenda
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Book selection
• Macmillan Readershi-lo books
• For adult audience
• Broad appeal
• Lends itself well to lessons/activities
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Reading sessions• Review last week’s reading• Read Aloud• Discuss chapter• Re-title chapter
Lessons and Games• Lessons/Reading comprehension
o New chapter titleso History lessons
• Gameso Crossword puzzleo Fill-in-the-Blanko Word searcho Guillotine Man
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Vocabulary Builders
• Vocab listso Look up dictionary definitionso Write our own definitions
• Bananagrams vocabulary!
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Special Events
• Methodso Observationo Spontaneous feedbacko Surveys
• Results
Outcome Measures
• Austin Dog Allianceo http://www.austindogalliance.org/
• End-of-Summer Social
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Conclusion
• Questions?