The Skills Program at Seacoast Learning Collaborative provides a highly structured full-day program for students in 1st grade through age 22 who have been diagnosed with various developmental disabilities. SLC’s mission is to recognize, embrace, and build upon the unique qualities, abilities, and potentials that exist within all students.
Students’ programs are individualized to meet each student’s individual academic, social, behavioral, and emotional needs. The goal of the program is to focus on the development of functional life skills, communication skills, academic skills, and daily living skills to encourage a student’s independence and, to the best of his/her ability, live a fulfilling and productive life.
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The SKILLS program focuses on transitional needs and services of our students based on realistic goals through academic, community, and social experiences.
Students in the SKILLS program receive
- Intensive support from paraprofessionals
- Individualized instruction and curriculum
- Individual learning spaces/ and work based on IEP goals
- Group learning experiences
- ABLE- Adventure Based Learning Experience-Group Therapy
- Volunteering at local businesses to practice vocational skills
- Monthly Field Trips
- Weekly shopping trips to improve store navigation, budgeting, money management, etc.
- Meal preparation
- Art Therapy
- Music Therapy
- Yoga
- Pet Therapy
- Functional Math: Developing skills in basic addition and subtraction, understanding measurements used in cooking, managing money and budgeting, telling time, and applying time management strategies.
- Functional Reading: Reading and comprehending menus, job and medical applications, community signs, and written directions, as well as building essential vocabulary for daily living.
- Functional Writing: Writing complete sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation, completing applications and forms accurately, composing short letters, and providing written responses for practical purposes.
- Secondary Life Skills: Identifying and submitting job applications, preparing for and participating in job interviews (including appropriate attire and communication), identifying personal job interests, requesting time off, and creating grocery lists and meal plans.
- Cooking and Food Safety: Demonstrating proper hygiene and food safety practices, following recipe steps, preparing grocery lists for selected recipes, and understanding safe food storage procedures.
- Social/Emotional Learning: Developing social competencies including politeness, empathy, appropriate peer interactions, personal safety awareness (including understanding of boundaries and “stranger danger”), and strategies for managing conflict and frustration.
- Daily reporting sheets are used to foster communication between student’s program staff and home.
- Program and behavior data is recorded on daily communication sheets in order to track individual progress.
- Daily communication sheets are reviewed; examining the student’s daily work completion scores, behavior scores.