Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ479372
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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A Giving Experience: Using Community Service to Promote Community Living Skills and Integration for Individuals with Severe Disabilities.
Everington, Carolina; Stevenson, Thea
Teaching Exceptional Children, v26 n3 p56-59 Spr 1994
Six high school students with multiple disabilities, including mental retardation, were taught community living skills through the establishment of a shopping service for people who were elderly or who had disabilities. Students increased their competence in community survival skills and also experienced a new role as helper. (JDD)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Community Services, Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills, Helping Relationship, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities, Program Development, Purchasing, Severe Disabilities, Skill Development, Social Integration, Student Projects
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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