Public Transportation

In the classroom students will plan a local bus trip using the Lane Transit District (LTD) Rider’s Digest, the LTD website, or Google Maps.  Students will have weekly opportunities to plan a trip in the community using a BCTN developed bus plan. Each student will have opportunities to work toward facilitating a safe execution of a bus plan (with staff support or independently).  If, for example, students missed a bus stop or took the wrong bus, staff would monitor the situation and allow the students to use problem-solving strategies.  Following the trip, students and staff debrief aspects of the trip that went well and identify focus areas for future trips. Students will specifically make a bus plan and a backup bus plan, read schedules, identify landmarks, write/verbalize plans, implement plans, practice safety in the community and on the bus, and follow the plan. Bus trip locations will include: identifying areas in the community for social/leisure opportunities and outside agencies for continued transition support. Social skills are also incorporated on the bus trips in a variety of situations (ex: appropriate conversations in the community, how to protect yourself from strangers, and how to ask for help from a safe person etc.).