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Article: Teaching Elementary Students with Moderate Intellectual Disabilities How to Shop for Groceries.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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A curriculum for students with moderate intellectual disabilities should emphasize skills that are both functional and longitudinally relevant. Since school-age students with moderate intellectual disabilities need to develop skills that will enable them to live, work, and interact in integrated community settings when they are adults (Morse, Schuster, & Sandknop, 1996), "training experiences must teach the skills necessary to function in these natural environments" (Nietupski, Welch, & Wacker, 1983, p. 279). Deciding exactly which functional skills to teach these students is challenging given their skill deficits, the number of skills they need to master if they are to ...