Alignment with the Common Core State Standards and the FL Access Points

Join the Speaker Initiative

Many non-verbal children are not provided with an alternative method of speaking and participate in instruction or behavior therapy 'solely as a listener'. Others are provided with an alternative method, such as picture exchange or an electronic tablet, that is not portable or requires multiple responses to make simple requests. These methods are often abandoned by the children, resulting in young adults with problem behavior 'when they want to make requests'. Essential for Living will help you select and confirm an alternative, method of speaking that meets the CAFE criteria -- Continuously Available, Frequently used, and Effortless -- and is much less likely to be abandoned later.

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72 New Speakers

Click on the link below to access Excel templates that provide an alignment of skills from five of the seven skill domains in Essential for Living (EFL) with the Common Core State Standards and the Florida Access Points. These skills can be considered extensions of these academic performance standards, in much the same way as skills that are part of Unique Learning Systems.

Unlike Unique, however, the skills from EFL are life skills which have been specifically designed to be taught to students with moderate-to-severe disabilities in situations similar to or the same as those which these students will encounter in everyday living.

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Skills from two skill domains in EFL — Daily Living Skills and Tolerating Skills — were not aligned with these standards, as these skills are not even indirectly related to academic performance standards.

For questions regarding this alignment, please contact Patrick McGreevy: patrick@eflold.sitemender.net.