Building Bridges for Special Needs Adults

Jennifer Coffey, MSISRebecca Sexton, MSIS

Funding and Planning

• Overviewo What o When o Where

• Identifying need

• Funding

• Benchmarking

Manuals

• Books for Dessert: Program Manual Guide for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Port Washington, New York: Port Washington Public Library. 2009. Print.

• Fish, Tom and Paula Rabidoux, et. al. The Next Chapter Book Club (NCBC): A Community Literacy Program for People with Intellectual Disabilities manual. Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House, 2009. Print.

Partnering with Area Agencies• Identifying area facilities

o School districtso Area volunteer groupso State agencies

• Colleges and universitieso Recruitment of volunteerso Alternative avenues

• Long Term Care Quality Reporting System. “Residential Care for persons with mental retardation.” Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services. 27 October 2010. facilityquality.dads.state.tx.us/qrs/public/qrs.do?page=home&lang=en&mode=P&dataSet=2

www.adultedcontentstandards.org/default.asp

Reading Level AssessmentAdult Education Content Standards Warehouse

Tom Fish and Paula Rabidoux, et. al.

The Next Chapter Book Club (NCBC): A Community

Literacy Program for People with Intellectual Disabilities

manual.

The Program

• Importance of structure 

• Summer schedule

• Weekly agenda

Book selection

• Macmillan Readershi-lo books

• For adult audience

• Broad appeal

• Lends itself well to lessons/activities

Reading sessions• Review last week’s reading• Read Aloud• Discuss chapter• Re-title chapter

Lessons and Games• Lessons/Reading comprehension

o New chapter titleso History lessons

• Gameso Crossword puzzleo Fill-in-the-Blanko Word searcho Guillotine Man

Vocabulary Builders

• Vocab listso Look up dictionary definitionso Write our own definitions

• Bananagrams vocabulary!

Special Events

• Methodso Observationo Spontaneous feedbacko Surveys

• Results

Outcome Measures

• Austin Dog Allianceo http://www.austindogalliance.org/

• End-of-Summer Social

Conclusion

• Questions?