Adults with Disabilities

This program provides life skills training for adults from the mildly to profoundly cognitively and/or physically disabled population to promote a more independent lifestyle, and to increase awareness of one’s own and others’ disabilities. Training targets self-care skills, values, grooming and hygiene, communication, money management, shopping, cooking, socialization, teamwork and basic functional academics..

This program assesses and trains the needs of the mildly to profoundly cognitively and/or physically disabled population to have a better understanding of their community, encouraging leadership opportunities and skills. Computer literacy, reading, writing, computational, socialization, and community resource skills are taught for greater independence within the community and at place of residence. Experiences develop appreciation for multi-cultural and lifestyle diversities.

This program’s goal assesses and trains the needs of the mildly to profoundly cognitively and/ or physically disabled population. Its goal is to provide an environment that is organized to prompt, reinforce, and maintain the development of vocational and interpersonal behavior that will allow students to fully utilize their ability to optimize motor and cognitive capabilities. Self-help tools improve communication abilities, and increase understanding of social/interpersonal behavior skills in the work world. Skills are discussed for coping with thoughts, feelings and behaviors appropriate for the work world. Students are exposed to light office skills, the use and application of hand tools, gardening and/or janitorial equipment. Students become knowledgeable of responsibilities for job retention; gain awareness of job seeking skills, using assessment tools to determine their vocational interest and learn the requirements for their area of desired vocation. Students will learn the benefits of teamwork and volunteerism