The World is Our Classroom: Using Community-Based Instruction to Advance Socially Significant Behavior in Students with Disabilities

• By: Chrissy Filozof, BCaBA Kaitlin Eberhardt, MA, BCBA, LBA-NYS Freehold Township Public School District, New Jersey
• January 1st, 2021
• CBI, community, community-based instruction, COVID-19, data, IEP, leisure, New Jersey, school, skill development, special education, students, winter 2021 issue
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Community-based instruction is sustained and repeated instruction that takes place in the community rather than in the school building (Baker & Freeman, 2014). It is a research-based practice that provides “real-life” opportunities to teach functional life skills as well as aspects of the...