Independent Living Skills 

Assessment

• Assessment Kit:  Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments
• Oregon Project for Visually Impaired & Blind Preschool Children Skills Inventory Curriculum, Fifth Edition
• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Daily Living Skills Domain)

Curricula

• Basic Skills for Community Living:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines
• Finding Wheels:  A Curriculum for Nondrivers with Visual Impairments for Gaining Control of Transportation Needs
• Functional Academic Curriculum for Exceptional Students (F.A.C.E.S.)
• Functional Academics:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments
• Hey! What's Cooking?  A Kitchen Curriculum for the Parents of Visually Impaired Children
• Independent Living:  A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments. 2^nd Edition
• Oregon Project for Visually Impaired & Blind Preschool Children Skills Inventory Curriculum, Fifth Edition

Early Childhood

• Hey!  What's Cooking?  A Kitchen Curriculum for the Parents of Visually Impaired Children
• Oregon Project for Visually Impaired & Blind Preschool Children Skills Inventory and Curriculum, Fifth Edition

Family Resources

• Hey!  What's Cooking?  A Kitchen Curriculum for the Parents of Visually Impaired Children
• Hadley School for the Blind (Courses in Independent Living and Life Adjustments)
• Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (formerly known as Texas Commision for the Blind)

Instructional Strategies 

• Basic Skills for Community Living:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines
• How to Thrive, Not Just Survive:  A Guide to Developing Independent Life Skills for Blind and Visually Impaired Children and Youth
• Independent Living Skills in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II:  Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments
• Independent Living:  A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments. 2^nd Edition
• Let's Eat:  Feeding a Child with a Visual Impairment
• Toward Independence:  The Use of Instructional Objectives Daily Living Skills to the Blind Activity Routines

Instructional Aids/Materials

• American Printing House for the Blind (Independent Living Skills Products)
• Ann Morris Enterprises
• Independent Living Aids, Inc.
• Lighthouse Catalog
• LS&S Group
• Maxi Aids

MIVI

• Basic Skills for Community Living:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines
• Functional Academic Curriculum for Exceptional Students (F.A.C.E.S.)
• Functional Academics:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments
• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Daily Living Skills Domain)

Instruction Of Personal Management

• Basic Skills for Community Living:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines
• Beyond TV Dinners:  3 Levels of Recipes for Visually Handicapped Cooks
• Functional Academic Curriculum for Exceptional Students (F.A.C.E.S.)
• Independent Living:  A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments
• The Pleasure of Eating for Those Who Are Visually Impaired
• Suggestions for the Blind Cook
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Short-Term Courses
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually ImpairedSummer Programs
• Toward Independence:  The Use of Instructional Objectives in Teaching Daily Living Skills to the Blind

Resources

• Fred's Head Database:  Sharing Valuable Tips and Techniques
• Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (formerly known as Texas Commision for the Blind)
• Texas School for the Blind Short-Term Courses
• Texas School for the Blind Summer Programs

Transportation

• Finding Wheels: A Curriculum for Nondrivers with Visual Impairments For Gaining Control of Transportation Needs

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Independent Living Skills Resources

ID #	Title	Annotation	Author	Media	Category
ILS1	How to Thrive, Not Just Survive:  A Guide to Developing Independent Life Skills for Blind and Visually Impaired Children and Youth	This book provides guidelines and strategies for helping blind and visually impaired children to develop, acquire and apply skills that are necessary for independence in socialization, orientation and mobility, and leisure time and recreational activities. ISBN: 0-89128-148-7	R. M. Swallow & K. M. Huebner, Eds.		Instructional Strategies
ILS2	Independent Living:  A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments. 2nd Edition	This curriculum serves as a resource and guide for assessment, evaluation, and instruction of students with visual impairments.	R. Loumiet & N. Levack		Curricula, Instructional Strategies
ILS3	Finding Wheels:  A Curriculum for Nondrivers with Visual Impairments for Gaining Control of Transportation Needs	This curriculum is designed for teachers, O&M specialists, and families to use with adolescents and young adults with visual impairments as they explore their transportation options as nondrivers. ISBN: 0890798273	Anne L. Corn & L. Penny Rosenblum		Curricula, Transportation
ILS9	The Pleasure of Eating for Those Who Are Visually Impaired	This booklet sets forth some general ideas and some specific techniques for eating that have been designed to help make a visually impaired skills more acceptable to others  and a greater source of pride and pleasure to himself.	P. Mangold		Instruction of Personal Management
ILS10	Functional Academic Curriculum for Exceptional Students (F.A.C.E.S.)	This curriculum covers math, science, social studies, physical health and vocational skills (elementary to high school) for students with moderate to severe disabilities.  (Available to all TVIs in Texas through their regional Education Service Center.  For out-of-state consumers contact Region 17 ESC, Lubbock, TX.)	none given		Instruction of Personal Management, Curricula, MIVI
ILS11	Assessment Kit:  Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments	This kit brings together informal checklists, suggestions for format, assessment materials that you may want to buy, informal reading inventories, and assessments of compensatory skill areas.	D. Sewell, Ed.		Assessment
ILS12	Basic Skills for Community Living:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities	Designed for students attending TSBVI who are between the ages of 6 and 22 and who have visual impairments combined with other disabilities, such as hearing impairments or dual sensory impairments and/or severe developmental delays.	N. Levack, S. Hauser, l. Newton & P. Stephenson (Eds.)		Curricula, Instruction of Personal Management, Instructional Strategies, MIVI
ILS13	Basic Skills for Community Living:  Activity Routines	A companion book to Basic Skills for Community Living for the domestic, recreation/leisure, and vocational domains, including activity routine discrepancy analysis forms, preprinted with routine steps with permission to copy.	P. Stephenson		Curricula, Instruction of Personal Management, Instructional Strategies, MIVI
ILS14	Lighthouse Catalog	Catalog of products promoting independence for visually impaired consumers.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
ILS15	LS&S Group	Catalog of products for the visually and hearings impaired.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
ILS16	Ann Morris Enterprises	Catalog of products promoting independence of people with visual impairments.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
ILS17	Independent Living Aids	Catalog of products promoting independence of people with visual impairments.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
ILS18	Hey! What's Cooking?  A Kitchen Curriculum for the Parents of Visually Impaired Children	Suggestions for parents to safely keep their visually impaired child with them while working and cooking in the kitchen.	F. Naughton & S. Sacks		Curricula, Early Childhood, Family Resources
ILS19	Oregon Project for Visually Impaired & Blind Preschool Children Skills Inventory and Curriculum, Fifth Edition	This curriculum focuses on teaching preschoolers with visual and multiple impairments and parent-teacher partnerships.	D. Brown, V. Simmons, J. Methvin, S. Anderson, S. Boigon, & K. Davis		Assessment, Curricula, Early Childhood
ILS22	American Printing House for the Blind (Daily Living Products)	Catalog of products unique to those with visual impairments. Many products are for instructive purposes.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
ILS23	Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Daily Living Skills Domain)	Assessment tool used with young multi-impaired hildren. (Not VI Specific)	N/A		Assessment, VIMI
ILS24	Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Short-Term Courses	TSBVI offers one week courses giving students intensive training in any area of their developed IEP.  (Texas students only)	N/A		Resources, Instruction of Personal Management
ILS25	Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (formerly known as Texas Commision for the Blind)	Organization providing support to those with visual impairments, from birth through adulthood, in many areas of education and daily living. (Texas students only)	N/A		Family Resources, Resources
ILS26	Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Summer Programs	TSBVI offers summer programs that provide students with instruction in areas of daily living skills.  (Texas students only)	N/A		Resources
ILS27	Functional Academics:  A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments	Curriculum designed for students ages 12 to 21 with additional disabilities.	S. Hauser, N. Levack and L. Newton		Curricula, MIVI
ILS28	Fred's Head Database:  Sharing Valuable Tips and Techniques	A source of tips and techniques for and by blind and visually impaired individuals.  A subject is entered and various answers/techniques are given to complete the search.  It covers all areas of daily living skills.	N/A		Resources
ILS29	Let's Eat:  Feeding a Child with a Visual Impairment	Booklet that covers teaching feeding skills and techniques to young visually impaired children at various ages and with various problems such as tactile defensiveness.  Provides solutions and ideas for feeding of children up to three years of age.	Jill Brody and Lynne Webber	and	Instructional Strategies
ILS30	Hadley School for the Blind (Coursework in Independent Living and Life Adjustments)	Correspondent courses for teachers, parents, or the student. Daily living skills is just one area available.	N/A		Family Resources
ILS32	Suggestions for the Blind Cook	Suggestions for creating meals and kitchen tips for those with visual impairments.	Schroeder and Willoughby		Instruction of Personal Management
ILS33	Maxi Aids	Catalog of products promoting independence of people with visual impairments.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
ILS34	Beyond TV Dinners:  3 Levels of Recipes for Visually Handicapped Cooks	This book offers a recipe package for students who need recipes geared to their cooking abilities.  The three levels of cooking are directly related to the cooking evaluations that are included in the book. ISBN: 9991808817	P. Canter, M. Cole, B. Hatlen, & P. LeDuc		Instruction of Personal Management
ILS35	Toward Independence:  The Use of Instructional Objectives in Teaching Daily Living Skills to the Blind	This book offers a sequence of instructional objectives related to daily living skills and recommended step by step techniques for teaching each objective.  It is designed for individualized instruction and can be used within a small class structure. ISBN: 0891280642	A. Yeadon		Instructional Strategies, Instruction of Personal Management
ILS 36	Independent Living Skills. In A. J. Koenig and M.C. Holbrook (Eds.), Foundations of Education:  Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments	This chapter is devoted to explaining modifications and techniques needed to teach independent living skills to visually impaired students.	P. Kelly and P. Smith		Instructional Strategies