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...

How to Build a Satisfying Recreation Program for Adults with Disabilities

• By: Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, Inc.
• October 1st, 2019
• activities, exercise, Fall 2019 Issue, leisure, recreation, socialization
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Andrew Auerbach, 63, has been going on weekend recreation trips with Chapel Haven Schleifer Center in New Haven, CT, since he arrived at the recreation program for adults with disabilities in 1977. Andy, who grew up on the Upper West Side of NYC, holds two part-time jobs during the week, so the...