Building Bridges for Special Needs Adults Jennifer Coffey, MSIS Rebecca Sexton, MSIS
Funding and Planning • Overview o o o What When Where • Identifying need • Funding • Benchmarking
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.
Partnering with Area Agencies • Identifying area facilities o School districts o Area volunteer groups o State agencies • Colleges and universities o Recruitment of volunteers o 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=ho me&lang=en&mode=P&data. Set=2
Reading Level Assessment Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse www. adultedcontentstandards. org/default. asp The Next Chapter Book Club (NCBC): A Community Literacy Program for People with Intellectual Disabilities manual. Tom Fish and Paula Rabidoux, et. al.
The Program • Importance of structure • Summer schedule • Weekly agenda
Book selection • Macmillan Readers hi-lo books • For adult audience • Broad appeal • Lends itself well to lessons/activities
Reading sessions • • Review last week’s reading Read Aloud Discuss chapter Re-title chapter Lessons and Games • Lessons/Reading comprehension o New chapter titles o History lessons • Games o Crossword puzzle o Fill-in-the-Blank o Word search o Guillotine Man
Vocabulary Builders • Vocab lists o o Look up dictionary definitions Write our own definitions • Bananagrams vocabulary!
Special Events • Austin Dog Alliance o http: //www. austindogalliance. org/ • End-of-Summer Social Outcome Measures • Methods o o o Observation Spontaneous feedback Surveys • Results
Conclusion • Questions?
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