GATES – ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING

This area of the expanded core curriculum is often referred to as "daily living skills." Independent living consists of all the tasks and functions persons perform, in order to lead lives as independently as possible. Some independent living skills are addressed in the existing core curriculum, but they may be introduced as splinter skills, appearing in learning material, disappearing, and then re-appearing. Traditional classes in Home Economics or Family and Consumer Science are not enough to meet the unique needs of most students who are visually impaired, since they assume a basic level of knowledge, acquired incidentally through vision. The skills and knowledge that sighted students acquire by casually and incidentally observing and interacting with their environment are often difficult, if not impossible, for students who are blind and visually impaired to learn without direct, sequential instruction. GATES Independent Living Skills emphasize increased independence in personal hygiene and care, personal food preparation, household management, money management and time monitoring. Self-advocacy is stressed in all classes.

2101 – Meal Planning & Preparation
Credit: .25
Meets Daily for 9 weeks
Prerequisite: Must be recommended by LEA
This course will include the teaching of the following: kitchen organization, identification of kitchen equipment, kitchen safety, use of small appliances, use of stove top, use of sharp knives, use of oven, proper kitchen clean up and sanitation, food storage, nutrition, menu writing, grocery list writing, recipe reading, direction reading, resource file making, making of necessary adaptations for efficient cooking (labels).

2102 – Personal & Home Management
Credit: .25
Meets Daily for 9 weeks
Prerequisite: Must be recommended by LEA
This course will include the teaching of the following: personal hygiene skills, laundry, simple clothing repair, appropriate dressing skills for different settings, organization of personal belongings, use of cleaning equipment, use of cleaning products, organization of household equipment, making of resource file, direction reading, making of necessary adaptations and labels.

2103 – Living in the Real World
Credit: .25
Meets Daily for 9 weeks
Prerequisite: Must be recommended by LEA
This course will include the teaching of the following: money identification, signature writing, banking practices, practice writing out bills, acquiring readers, telephone use, technology for daily living skills, low-tech devices, community resources, time management skills.

2104 – Recreation for Adult Life
Credit: .25
Meets Daily for 9 weeks
Prerequisite: Must be recommended by LEA
This course will teach the following: planning outings, game playing, social skills, appropriate dating behavior, accessing the community, using the World Wide Web to locate recreation events.

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