Skills Taught in the Community
SCHOOL COMMUNITY SKILLS
- Hallway Skills
- Locate homerooms, cafeterias, gymnasium
- Keep hand to yourself
- Quiet voices
- Follow classroom/ school rules
- Cafeteria Skills
- Enter, obtain tray, silverware, napkins
- Eat appropriately
- Social skills with peers
- Return tray, exit appropriately
- Restroom Skills
- Enter, find stall, close door
- Use toilet paper, dressing skills
- Personal hygiene, wash/dry hands
- Exit
COMMUNITY SKILLS
- Personal Safety Skills
- Personal identification
- Name, address, and phone number
- Carry purse/billfold, produce information
- Locate ID bracelet/necklace
- Know “safe” people in community
- Stranger safety
- Functional Academics
- Sight Words – words found in community (i.e., survival, grocery, clothing, menu words, etc.) (Lists available in GIG Reading.)
- Finding items in a store
- Purchasing items – wait in line
- Dealing with cashier, waiting for change
- Money-counting/managing money
- Time
- Telephone usage
- Vending machines
- Newspaper usage – TV guide, store ads, weather, want ads, etc.
- Transportation Skills
- Enter vehicle appropriately
- Close/lock door
- Bus/taxi – pay or use card
- Buckle seatbelt
- Appropriate behavior
- Wait to exit
- Vocational Skills
- Job applications/interview
- Getting to work – on time, transportation
- Breaks/lunch time
- Handling sickness
- Asking for help
- Mobility Skills
- Pedestrian skills – stops at curb, cross with adult, marked/unmarked crossing
- Use elevator / escalator, automatic doors, push/pull, in/out, etc.
- Locate restroom, bus stop
- Information booth, etc.
- Functional Community Skills
- Entering store/restaurant quietly
- Waiting in lines or for food/behavior
- Getting along with others
- Personal responsibility
- Leisure Skills
- Health Club – locating areas using equipment, dressing skills, money skills
- Fitness awareness
- Community Parks – appropriate usage
- Community education
- Spectator sports
- “Hanging Out” with peers
- Movies, concerts
- Writing letters
- Zoo
- Park/recreation activities