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Building Bridges for Special Needs Adults

Building Bridges for Special Needs Adults. Jennifer Coffey, MSIS Rebecca Sexton, MSIS. Funding and Planning. Overview What When Where Identifying need Funding Benchmarking. Manuals.

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Building Bridges for Special Needs Adults

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  1. Building Bridges for Special Needs Adults Jennifer Coffey, MSIS Rebecca Sexton, MSIS

  2. Funding and Planning Overview What When Where Identifying need Funding Benchmarking

  3. 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.

  4. Identifying area facilities • School districts • Area volunteer groups • State agencies • Colleges and universities • Recruitment of volunteers • 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 Partnering with Area Agencies

  5. Reading Level Assessment Adult Education Content Standards Warehouse The Next Chapter Book Club (NCBC): A Community Literacy Program for People with Intellectual Disabilities manual. www.adultedcontentstandards.org/default.asp Tom Fish and Paula Rabidoux, et. al.

  6. The Program Importance of structure Summer schedule Weekly agenda

  7. Book selection Macmillan Readershi-lo books For adult audience Broad appeal Lends itself well to lessons/activities

  8. Reading sessions Lessons and Games • Lessons/Reading comprehension • New chapter titles • History lessons • Games • Crossword puzzle • Fill-in-the-Blank • Word search • Guillotine Man Review last week’s reading Read Aloud Discuss chapter Re-title chapter

  9. Vocabulary Builders Vocab lists Look up dictionary definitions Write our own definitions Bananagrams vocabulary!

  10. Austin Dog Alliance • http://www.austindogalliance.org/ • End-of-Summer Social Special Events Outcome Measures Methods Observation Spontaneous feedback Surveys Results

  11. Conclusion Questions?

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