VSP Intervention Resources
Welcome!
Key Tools & Strategies for Engagement (organized by UDL Guidelines)
For Families
5 Ways Video Games Can Help Kids with Disabilities - learning through play is a wonderful motivator for kids with disabilities.
9 great first time jobs for teens - learn about jobs for teens in context of different student disabilities
Disability Benefits 101 - gives you tools and information on health coverage, benefits, and employment
Help Kids Spot Fake News and Decode Media Messages - from Common Sense Media this quick read helps give parents ideas on how to help their young adults learn how to navigate all the information they find online.
Refer and assist students in obtaining desired adult services - What Are They? Where Are They? Resources for families.
The Wallet Card® Project – Helping People with Disabilities Communicate with First Responders - students can get a card with information about them on it to safely and quickly disclose their disability to the police/first responder.
Tips When Considering Housing and Services - suggestions for families on how to plan early for housing for their young adult.
Instructional Content
Be Internet Awesome – Help kids learn to be safe, confident explorers of the online world using these games
Before age 18 - healthy living - Activities on healthy living in the areas of nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and stress
Blind Abilities App (apple, android)- Blind Abilities produces podcasts and blogs dealing with accessibility, technologies, devices and enhancing the opportunities in the job market for the Blind, visually Impaired and DeafBlind
Explore Work - explore work skills and map out a plan for the future
Goalbook present level wizard with its new functional and life skills section
Social Media Test Drive: 20-Minute Games - Healthy Social Media Habits
Independent Living Checklist - This form is designed to help the IEP team decide if a student needs a postsecondary goal in the area of independent living.
Money Instructor - “Teach and Learn Basic Money Skills, Personal Finance, Business, Careers, and Life Skills.”
National Geographic Education Resource Library – Thousands of activities, articles, photographs, and more in the areas of science and social studies
National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorder – wonderful training resources to help develop skills to implement evidence-based strategies to help students
Preparing Students for Competitive Integrated Employment (NTACT:C) - many resources for educators and families aiming at competitive employment
SnagaJob youtube video series - interview videos with questions and answers to help practice how to handle common questions during an interview
Workforce Solutions Job Readiness Curriculum - is a 13 module, 40-hour soft skills training to help prepare individuals for success in the workplace.
Provide options for recruiting interest:
Creating your own Google tour to support students to help with social stories and learning about different environments
For Youth, By Youth - “If you’re a young person and want to know more about finding and keeping the right job, the information in this brief can help”
Optimize relevance, value, & authenticity - Schedules from Goalbook
Minimize threats & distractions - Sensory Supports from Goalbook
SightlessKombat - "meet the blind gamer with a killer instinct"
Optimize individual choice & autonomy - Visual Task Schedule from Goalbook
Provide options for sustaining effort & persistence:
Assistive Technology resources & FAQs – here you can access resources many great assistive tech resources and training
Foster collaboration & communication
Check In/Check Out from Goalbook.
Assistive Tech Talk - Executive Function Skills at Work (office setting)
Vary demands & resources to optimize challenges - Graduated Guidance from Goalbook
I'm Determined Goal Plan - a tool to help students plan and set goals. An overview video is also available.
I'm Determined Good Day Plan - a tool to help families plan a successful day with their child.
Job Accommodation Network (JAN) - answers and resources on job accommodations
Snap and Read Universal – A tool to add to chrome that provides text to speech, a screenshot reader, a tool to simplify text, and more. Follow this guide to get access through the IRC.
Heighten salience of goals & objectives - Self-Monitoring from Goalbook
Provide options for self-regulation:
5 Social-Emotional Learning Activities for High School - Fist to Five (Self-Management), Different Perspectives in Literature (Social Awareness), Social Contract (Relationship Skills), Meaningful Online Messages (Relationship Skills), and Responsible Citizens (Responsible Decision Making)
60-Second Strategy: Daily Intention - By making small goal setting part of the everyday routine, teachers help students build the skills they need to achieve larger and longer-term objectives.
Calm - Free mindfulness training tools for educators (scroll down all the way to the bottom to enroll for free!)
Circles Curriculum - Teach students the rules of social boundaries. This is a tool that must be purchased.
Develop self-assessment & reflection - Goal Setting from Goalbook
Facilitate personal coping skills & strategies
Kansas Technical Assistance System Network (TASN) - Autism and Tertiary Behavior Supports Project
Social Skills Toolbox from Do2Learn
Emotions Color Wheel from Do2Learn
Promote expectations & beliefs that optimize motivation
6 Reasons Why Students are Unmotivated (and What Teachers Can Do) from Intervention Central
Reinforcer Survey from Intervention Central
Soft Skills to Pay the Bills - curriculum developed by ODEP focused on teaching "soft" or workforce readiness skills to youth, including youth with disabilities.
The Imagine Project - Lesson plans and resources for helping students move past negative experiences
Key Reference:
CAST (2011). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.0. Wakefield, MA: Author.