Independent living social skills curriculum

Explore Your Community is a full-year curriculum for transition students stressing essential skills for successful independent living. The student book features 24 lessons focused on transportation, shopping, dining, banking, and recreation. Students participate in a consistent lesson sequence: answer anticipatory questions, study vocabulary, read an illustrated essay, follow a photo sequence, practice social skills, and complete a comprehension test. The student book is heavily illustrated to support struggling readers.

The Community Explorer live-action DVD shows each community activity step by step with narrators highlighting important points and relative social facts.

Instructor's Guide features:

1. Role play scenarios
2. Teaching tips
3. Community extension activities
4. Problem-solving discussion questions
5. Image library to create communication overlays

Also available is the Explore Your Community Introductory Kit that includes an Explore Your Community student book, an Instructor’s Guide, a Community Explorer DVD, reproducible image library on CD, and PDF files of student materials.