Our Circles® curriculum has been completely remade! Circles has been extremely successful in teaching students about levels of intimacy and appropriate contact with all of the people they encounter. Currently used in over 10,000 facilities nationwide, Circles teaches social boundaries, relationship boundaries and relationship specific behaviors using a multi-layer circle diagram to demonstrate different relationship levels.

 

Life Horizons® teaches the physiological, emotional, moral and legal aspects of sexuality. The program also focuses on attitudes and behaviors that promote good interpersonal relationships and responsible sexual behavior. It is the most widely used family life education program for individuals with developmental and learning disabilities.

 

LifeFacts® is a 6-part course of study for individuals with special needs on topics relevant to living life more fully, safely and healthfully. Programs in the LifeFacts series include Abuse Prevention, SmartTrust, Managing Emotions, Sexuality, Substance Abuse and Injury/Illness.

 

There are additional programs that address puberty and everything that comes with physical maturation. These programs cover everything from menstrual self-care to abuse prevention strategies for children, adolescents, and young adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

 

*Note: Sexually explicit materials can be edited to meet the requirements of student needs and community taste.

Our First Job Survival Skills series shows students how to be responsible and get a job, stay safe while at work, and avoid the kinds of behaviors that lead to termination. The series also outlines the 11 essential employee attributes and work skills and confronts the unrealistic fantasies many young people have about the world of work.

Transitions Curriculum

The Transitions Curriculum was designed by two nationally known transition experts and puts the student in the drivers seat by teaching them personal, career, and life management skills. The social skills needed in order to be approved by boss and co-workers are also taught. Transitions include 1,500 sequenced objectives, 300 lessons, assessment units, 600 worksheets and IEP meeting materials.

Working Program

The Working Program uses VideoModeling to show students how to interview, land a job, and keep that job by getting along with the boss and co-workers. Included in this program are interviews with employers and counselors advising on how to present one’s self.

JobSmart Program

Finally, our JobSmart program, part of our comprehensive LifeSmart Curriculum, will teach students important social skills related to the workplace and show students how to avoid trouble on the job, how to have an appropriate attitude for work, and how to get a promotion. In this module, students will learn what experts consider to be work DOs and DON’Ts.

The LifeSmart series provides over 18 hours of video instruction and includes programs that teach social skills in the areas of dating, money management, safety, friendship, and work. The focus of LifeSmart is teaching the “Top10” core skills in areas crucial to life adjustment. LifeSmart uses the Stanfield Comedy Players to model both incorrect and appropriate behaviors in real-life situations.

The programs in our Living with Others Library teach necessary social skills, and how to use these skills to become a good roommate and interact with people in a positive way. Home of Your Own teaches cooperative living skills needed to successfully live with others. This program models classic right and wrong ways to interact with others in a shared living space in a humorous yet informative way. Students can then put all of these social skills into action to locate and use community resources in Community Man. In this program, students also learn how to be productive and responsible members of their neighborhoods.

The BeCool Series teaching paradigm is based on Assertion Training. Your students will watch as their video peers hesitate and then model three different ways to respond to conflict: 1. Blowing up (HOT); 2. Giving up (COLD); 3. In Control (COOL). The negative consequences of the victim-like/passive response and the hot-head/aggressive response are then contrasted against positive outcomes of the assertive/COOL response.

Unique Teaching Icons are used to symbolize the aggressive/HOT response, the passive/ COLD response, and the assertive/COOL response. Each time a particular response is illustrated, it is paired with the icon that symbolizes that response. Fire is used to symbolize the HOT response, ice is used to symbolize the COLD response and calm white clouds are used for the COOL response. In time, students are able to recall the feeling tone of the HOT, COLD and COOL response by recalling the icon itself. These icons are especially helpful for students with cognitive disabilities. These students may be unable to verbalize behaviors associated with acting “COOL,” but quite capable of recalling the “clouds” icon of the COOL response and the calm tone associated with it and act accordingly.

Each age-level series comes with individual modules, complete with a minimum of three DVD’s and a comprehensive teacher’s guide, to teach coping skills in different problem areas.

Each strand can be used as a supplement to the core curriculum for targeted intervention, or combined for use as a comprehensive, stand-alone reading and language arts program that meets rigorous state standards.