Practicing everyday community, work, home, recreation, and personal safety skills

“Stepping Out is initiated in the classroom where many pre-outing activities are rehearsed, but quickly progresses to the community where students will eventually live their lives.”

The underlying goal for developmentally challenged young adults is to achieve independent living. Stepping Out provides teachers with a comprehensive community-based curriculum (CBI) that begins with pre-outing practice and culminates in real-life outings. Worksheets and guided practice assist students in learning simple and basic skills. As introductory skills are mastered, students practice and prepare for more complex tasks such as shopping in a department store and completing banking transactions.

The Stepping Out Curriculum sets lesson plans for 19 standard outings, plus dozens of related activities. A unique collection of 23 Stepping Out Cues helps students perform community activities without requiring prerequisite academic skills. The cues can be long-term adaptations or faded as skills develop. Assessment and parent involvement forms help advance community-based instruction goals in the IEP. Print extra cues and supplemental material from the CD.

Covered spiralbound book, 285 pgs., updated in 2007, includes a Win/Mac CD with printable PDF of cues plus supplemental materials, 2005. Two sets of Stepping Out Cues included.