Significant Disabilities Resources - Public Domain Curriculum

The complexion care program provides a simple step-by-step procedure to teach your students how to clean and care for their skin.This program provides steps in teaching how to cleanse your face with soap, a cleanser, using blemish cream, and using moisturizer.

Counting Objects is a program that teaches the skill of one-to-one correspondence to count objects.It has a great scope and sequence that begins with the learner counting objects by picking them up and ends with the learner being able to count to a specific number between one and ten.

The tooth-brushing program provides a task analysis of proper tooth brushing.This program begins by teaching the first step of picking up your toothbrush and continues through each step until the student reaches the last step of throwing away the cup and paper towel.

The article “Every Parent a Teacher” provides parents with a complete outlook at their importance in their child’s learning.It stresses the importance of building a close, positive relationship with their children when they are infants.This article provides guidelines to create both spontaneous learning moments and the steps for beneficial planned learning moments.

A set of worksheets provided for student practice.Several worksheets provide models for the learner to work from as well as several blank worksheets for student practice.

The Low Performers’ Manual consists of four sections that provide basic guidelines and procedures for teaching the low performing students.Section I addresses the use of behavior objectives, procedures for diagnosing, and broader specifications of what to teach.Section II provides general guidelines for different behaviors, basic procedures for scheduling, and general rules for pacing.Section III provides procedures for diagnosing in order to provide specific instruction and gain knowledge about the learner’s basic skill level and behavioral adjustment.Lastly, Section IV provides guidelines and procedures for teaching new motor responses.

Matching sizes, shapes, and colors is a program that teaches the learner how to correctly match different colors, shapes, and sizes.It begins by teaching two colors and as the learner masters that lesson it adds on more colors.After the student is able to match colors, the program moves on to teaching different shapes, and then onto sizes.

The mini posters are a collection of posters for use with both teachers and students.Many posters consist of best practices in Special Education such as handling behavior problems, keeping track of progress, and the Special Education process.There are also several posters consisting of safety tips and procedures to use in your classroom.These posters consist of knowing how a child is feeling, administering oral medication, and preventing dehydration.

Motor Development I teaches the pre-requisite skills for sitting and moving around.It provides lessons in teaching the learner to raise his head while laying on his stomach up to learning to sit without support and crawling on his elbows.

Nose blowing is a program that provides a task analysis, a step-by-step procedure, for teaching the learner how to blow his/her nose correctly.This program also provides steps for teaching the learner how to wipe his nose correctly.

Number Symbols is a math program that teaches the skills of single column addition and subtraction with numbers up to 10.This program also teaches the concepts of “more”, “equal”, and “less”.

The purpose of this program is to teach the learner basic skills for gross motor activities (playing with a ball) and fine motor activities (threading beads or playing with dough).This program addresses three different types of play: individual play, parallel play, and cooperative play.

This program addresses the skills used to sew on two-hole and four-hole buttons onto fabric.The program begins teaching the holding stitch without a button and moves onto completing a stitch with the button.

The purpose of this program is to provide the skills necessary to putting on and removing socks and shoes.

This program teaches the learner to verbalize his name, address, and phone number. The program begins with teaching the name by learning the sounds of each letter and then saying the name quickly.This program uses a backward chain in order to teach the phone number.

The purpose of this program is to teach the learner to use the bathroom independently.The learner should be able to do the following at the end of this program: go to the toilet, pull down his/her pants, urinate and/or have a bowel movement, wipe if necessary, and flush the toilet.