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Peer reviewedTurnbull, Anne P.; Turnbull, H. Rutherford, III – Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 1985
The authors examine the meaning of independence for persons with a disability, note two prerequisites (access to the same opportunities of life and capacity to participate in those activities), and explore strategies to help disabled persons learn to choose how to live their lives (including personal life planning, problem solving instruction, and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Disabilities, Individual Power, Personal Autonomy
Mount, Beth; Zwernik, Kay – 1989
Personal futures planning is a tool for fostering new ways of thinking about people with developmental disabilities. Futures planning helps groups of people focus on opportunities for people with disabilities to develop personal relationships, have positive roles in community life, increase their control of their own lives, and develop the skills…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Developmental Disabilities, Goal Orientation, Individual Development
Posthill, Suzanne M.; Roffman, Arlyn J. – Academic Therapy, 1990
The article describes typical conceptual problems that limit adolescents and young adults with learning disabilities in their efforts to become financially responsible. In a case study format, five money management problems are presented and resolved, including organizing financial records, budgeting, reconciling bank statements, and dividing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, High Schools, Home Management
Peer reviewedDirling, Joanne – Preventing School Failure, 1999
Presents strategies for building resilience in students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms. Suggestions are provided for promoting social competence, problem-solving skills, autonomy, and sense of purpose. A checklist for resilience is included, along with two stories of children with disabilities who gained resilience. (CR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities
Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Agran, Martin; Hughes, Carolyn – 1998
This book describes instructional methods for teaching basic self-determination skills to students with disabilities. The first section provides an introduction to self-determination as an educational and transition outcome, discusses the impetus for an educational focus on self determination, and describes the relationships between transition…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationMissouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. – 2002
This document is comprised of four publications of the early childhood section of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: (1) prekindergarten standards related to social and emotional development and approaches to learning; (2) a teacher's guide to early social and emotional development and approaches to learning; (3) a…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Child Responsibility, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Emotional Development
