A community-based solution for people with disabilities to achieve independence. Includes activities on accessing the community as a consumer, using cue cards, mobility training, financial literacy, safety skills, signs, and leisure time.  

Included in the kit:

• Stepping Out Curriculum
• Explore Your Community
• Focus On Community
• Focus On Safety
• Tracking Success: Community Solution Checklist

Features

• Develops the skills necessary for independent living and community integration 
• Features easy-to-read, photo-illustrated formats for nonreaders and emergent readers 
• Provides community-based instruction to help people learn a balanced blend of skills 
• Includes a checklist to give providers benchmarks to highlight success in offering community solutions 

In the kit

Stepping Out Curriculum 

A community-based instructional program for students to achieve independence outside of school 

• Provides task analysis lesson plans for 18 community outings 
• Includes StepPad with overlays to support with multi-step tasks  
• Offers outing checklists and data sheets for monitoring progress  
• Use scripted teaching cues for long-term adaptations or fade as skills develop 
• My Steps Workbook allows for practice before heading out to the community 

Stepping Out is a comprehensive community-based instruction (CBI) curriculum that includes a task analysis for 18 community outings including grocery shopping, eating at restaurants, using the bank, and going to the movie theater. 

 
Explore Your Community 

A skills-based curriculum for completing daily living skills independently in the community 

• 24 community-oriented lessons grouped by activity such as getting transportation, or being at home with friends 
• Integrates printed information with video models and role play scenarios to further generalization and understanding 
• Each lesson can be used as a stand-alone or in aggregate to create a naturally occurring sequence of skills 
• Use for a full-year curriculum or based on need 
• Student book includes images above words as visual prompts 

This comprehensive program covers the basics like Operating an Elevator and Dining in a Fast Food Restaurant, as well as Riding a Bus and Asking for Help. 

Explore Your Community is a blended curriculum, seamlessly integrating print materials with video, software, and an iPad app. This blended approach increases student engagement while helping you teach students with varying abilities and learning preferences. 

 
Focus On Community 

A comprehensive, life skills program for enhancing work, community, safety, and interpersonal skills 

• A collection of four titles ideal for transition students 
• Real-life photos to help nonreaders and emergent readers understand the content 
• Titles come with an Instructor's Reference Guide, Student Reader, and consumable Student Workbook 
• Workbook questions follow Bloom's Taxonomy for Learning in which students are asked to create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember to answer questions