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...

Early Start: Preparing Adolescents for the Transition Years

• By: Lois Trusler, BSW Todd Harris, PhD Devereux
• April 1st, 2017
• adolescents, community-based instruction, independence, self-care, spring 2017 issue, transition
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The transition years prepare adolescents for life as an adult, including living as independently as possible, securing and maintaining employment and effectively interacting in the community. Children with autism spectrum disorders approaching adolescence and their families are faced with great...

Traditional Education May Be the Biggest Barrier to a Meaningful Education

• By: Gloria M. Satriale, Esq, BCABA Thomas L. Zane, PhD, BCBA-D Endicott College
• January 1st, 2013
• applied behavior analysis, classroom, community integration, community-based instruction, functional life skills, generalization of skills, skill building, special education, transition to adulthood
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Unlike many disorders that are treatable with a pill or procedure, the most important form of treatment for an autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is education. However, the traditional special education model, notwithstanding the great advances made in public education, individualized programing and...