1. Recognizing the ECC in What We Do

2. I’m Overwhelmed! IT’S SO MUCH!! THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY BARRIERS!
When one is responsible for ensuring that a child is prepared for adulthood, the amount of content that must be addressed seems totally overwhelming.
THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY BARRIERS!

3. Barriers Never enough TIME! For TVIs
Receive significant pressure to focus on academic skills or on skills that clearly support academic learning
Sense that the immediate need is to ensure that child experiences success in the assigned classroom or environment
May believe that some instruction should be responsibility of parents and families
May be locked into settings that are not conducive to ECC learning
Never enough TIME!

4. Which ECC skills are already being addressed for your students?
Compensatory skills Assistive technology Sensory efficiency

5. Are you identifying all of the ECC skills that you are addressing or are helping others to address?
It helps to use ECC language to describe what you do!

6. Being mindful of what ECC skills are being addressed helps us to feel better about what we are accomplishing

7. Which ECC skills could easily be added to your students’ general/special education classroom activities?

8. Building on Current Skills
Select a student on your caseload
Think about the skills for which that student would benefit from:
further practice
increased expectations/challenge
more responsibility or use of the skill
Identify ways that these minor changes can be built into the school day by the assigned teacher

9. On which ECC skills could you provide initial instruction that could relatively easily be built into the school day?

10. Infusing the ECC in the Student’s School Day
Getting off the Bus
Cubby/Locker
Breakfast/Early Snack
Circle/Calendar/Homeroom
Within classroom(s) and special areas
Passing between classes
Lunch
Recess
Afterschool
Getting ready to go home/Bus

11. Are there ECC skills that you could you teach in those odd spare minutes of your time with a student?

12. “5 Minute” Lessons Put a stamp on an envelope Wash carrots
Measure cane length need
Give/receive compliments
Graph use of low vision device
Compare types of sports balls
Distinguish among 2-3 spices
Look up information on internet
Water plant/discuss related work

13. 5 Minute Lessons Compensatory access Sensory efficiency
Assistive technology
Orientation and mobility
Independent living
Social interaction
Recreation and leisure
Career/vocational
Self-determination