连接 offers training in social skills for young adults with mild-to-moderate special needs.
连接 is a weekly social skills course designed for young adults who received services in high school for mild-to-moderate special needs in the area of social skills.
课程目标
The goal of the course is to help students with special needs develop and practice social skills so they can connect with others and with their community in a positive way. 除了, to encourage students to develop a social life, 连接 provides valuable information about how to participate in community activities and use community resources.
指令
We will offer instruction in social skills and appropriate social interaction, and provide opportunities for students to practice those skills with each other. Students will also learn how to plan, organize and get involved in community activities. We will focus on topics related to enhancing self-awareness, building relationships and creating a social life.
Role-playing, open forums and small group interaction keep students engaged in class. 除了, twice a month students participate in a social activity in the community that they select and plan. The social activities may include trips to area restaurants, theaters and parks as well as students’ homes.
课程时间表
连接 courses are held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Mondays during the fall and spring semesters. Students meet on the 赌钱app可以微信提现 campus every other week. They meet in the community for a social activity on the other weeks. Some community activities may begin earlier than 7 p.m. depending upon the activity that has been planned.
资格
Students may enroll if they are young adults, have difficulty making appropriate social decisions and are able to:
- 独立换教室
- Participate in small group activities
- 与他人交谈
- Remain seated without supervision
- 遵循简单的指示
- Attend to a task for at least 20 minutes
- Transport and take medications independently
- Attend to personal hygiene independently
- Arrange transportation or help pay for gas for carpooling to and from community activities
- Go into the community with a group with minimal supervision
此外，学生不得:
- Require extensive supervision for acute or chronic medical conditions, such as seizure disorders
- 需要特殊饮食
- Have demonstrated physical, sexual or severe verbal aggression in recent years
- Have left a specified location without permission from staff or a family member in the past two years
成本
学费 is $229 per semester plus a $50 activity fee. The activity fee is collected on the first night of class.
招生
The 连接 course is currently open to previous and new students. New students must be accepted by the instructors prior to being approved to enroll.
To see if you qualify for this program, 电子邮件讲师 Susan Fisher和劳里 Rue.
教练
劳里米. Rue and Susan Fisher are special educators who have taught in the Shawnee Mission and Blue Valley School Districts. Together they have over 50 years of classroom and community based instruction experience.
从90年代初开始, 劳里 has taught an extremely successful high school-level social skills class, 人际关系技巧. Susan joined 劳里 to co-teach 人际关系技巧 class in 2001. This class was recognized as a model in the area of transition by the University of Kansas and was awarded a grant to develop and publish the curriculum for the university.
Seeing the need for social skills beyond high school, 劳里, 和另一个同事, developed the 连接 class and began teaching the course in 2001. In 2006, Susan began to co-teach 连接 with 劳里 and they have continually taught this course at 赌钱app可以微信提现.
