Curriculum Resources

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles:

• Basic Office Skills
• Basic Laundry Skills
• Basic Hotel/Housekeeping Skills
• Basic Packaging Assembly Skills
• Retail Skills-Stocking Small Retail
• Retail Skills-Cashier For Small Retail
• Cafeteria Setup And Cleanup Skills
• Kitchen Skills

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles:

• Addition, Subtraction Using A Number Line
• Using Fractions/Decimals/Percents In Functional Calculations
• Recording Time Worked And Calculating Wages
• Using An ATM
• Budgeting Skills
• Types Of Stores And What They Carry
• Grocery Shopping

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles: 

• Simple Conversations 
• Following Directions Using Basic Positional Prepositions 
• Responding To Simple Who/What/Where/When Questions 
• Using Simple Sentence Structure 
• Teaching Receptive And Expressive Verbs

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles:

• Addition, Subtraction Using A Number Line
• Using Fractions/Decimals/Percents In Functional Calculations
• Recording Time Worked And Calculating Wages
• Using An ATM
• Budgeting Skills
• Types Of Stores And What They Carry
• Grocery Shopping

Procedures and task analyses for teaching a variety of basic safety skills are described.  Skills include, responding to alarms, emergency personnel and law enforcement; basic first aid, appropriate reaction to medical emergencies and dangerous situations; using the phone to call for help; street crossing; what to do when lost; seeking assistance; and avoiding and appropriate reaction to household hazards. These are core safety skills for increasing independence and autonomy at home as well in the community. The ability to demonstrate these skills serve as prerequisites to more advanced independent living skills.

This write-up covers the entire sequence of skills involved in eating at a restaurant including, ordering, appropriate interactions with wait staff, table behavior, calculate tax and tip and pay for a meal.  In addition to a discussion of how to teach each skill the document includes 3 photos of materials and 3 detailed task analyses.

This write-up covers a variety of food preparation skills including: using a microwave, oven, stovetop and toaster; using a variety of common kitchen utensils, basic knife skills, basic food prep such as cracking an egg, measuring ingredients, and spreading with a knife;  following a recipe and food and kitchen safety.  Write-up includes 4 photos of materials and 19 task analyses for specific kitchen skills.

Task analyses and teaching procedures for basic and intermediate dressing skills are provided covering putting on and taking off: underwear, pullover and buttoned shirts, pants/shorts, socks, shoes, belt, coat, hats, gloves, scarf, work accessories, jewelry, selecting matching outfits, and dressing for the weather.  5 pictures of materials are provided along with 34 task analyses.

Detailed task analyses and teaching procedures for a variety of personal care skills including: washing face and hands, showering and taking a bath, putting on deodorant, brushing hair, brushing teeth, flossing, using mouthwash, blow drying hair, nail clipping, menstrual care, and using a public restroom.  These critical skills are a prerequisite to independence in daily life.  The write-up includes 7 photos/tables of teaching materials and 14 detailed task analyses.

This write-up provides step by step teaching procedures for teaching students to complete a variety of restaurant/cafeteria kitchen clean-up and maintenance tasks and perform multiple tasks in sequence, in a variety of situations.  These valuable job skills can also be generalized to the home environment.  Specific tasks include: washing dishes in a 3 basin sink, washing dishes in a commercial dishwasher, cleaning sinks, cleaning countertops; cleaning stove-tops; removing trash and sweeping the floor.  The write-up includes 6 detailed task analyses.

Detailed NLG teaching procedures to allow students to complete a variety of cafeteria set up and maintenance tasks and perform multiple tasks in sequence, in a variety of situations. Specific tasks include: bussing tables, cleaning tables, setting tables, cleaning and stacking chairs, setting up chairs, and stocking silverware caddies.  Combined with the housekeeping skills presented in that write-up the student will have a large repertoire of skills for use at home and in a variety of cafeteria, restaurant and banquet settings.   The write-up includes 6 task analyses.

In this write-up, detailed teaching procedures and task analyses are presented for 10 different skills related to the vocational and life skill of maintaining a hotel room/bedroom/home.  Specific tasks include: stripping and making a bed; dusting/polishing surfaces; vacuuming; cleaning windows and mirrors; cleaning a sink/vanity; cleaning a bathtub; cleaning a toilet; sweeping, mopping; removing trash; and restocking supplies.  These skills can be applied to a variety of rooms in the student’s home or work environment and are important skills for independent functioning.

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles:

• Basic Office Skills
• Basic Laundry Skills
• Basic Hotel/Housekeeping Skills
• Basic Packaging Assembly Skills
• Retail Skills-Stocking Small Retail
• Retail Skills-Cashier For Small Retail
• Cafeteria Setup And Cleanup Skills
• Kitchen Skills

This write-up provides step by step teaching procedures for teaching students to complete a variety of restaurant/cafeteria kitchen clean-up and maintenance tasks and perform multiple tasks in sequence, in a variety of situations.  These valuable job skills can also be generalized to the home environment.  Specific tasks include: washing dishes in a 3 basin sink, washing dishes in a commercial dishwasher, cleaning sinks, cleaning countertops; cleaning stove-tops; removing trash and sweeping the floor.  The write-up includes 6 detailed task analyses.

Detailed NLG teaching procedures to allow students to complete a variety of cafeteria set up and maintenance tasks and perform multiple tasks in sequence, in a variety of situations. Specific tasks include: bussing tables, cleaning tables, setting tables, cleaning and stacking chairs, setting up chairs, and stocking silverware caddies.  Combined with the housekeeping skills presented in that write-up the student will have a large repertoire of skills for use at home and in a variety of cafeteria, restaurant and banquet settings.   The write-up includes 6 task analyses.

This step by step guide provides the information needed to teach students to price and stock shelves in a small retail setting.  Skills include independently retrieving items needing to be stocked from a designated area, retrieving all necessary materials, referencing a pricing sheet to set the pricing gun before each new item, pricing items using a pricing gun and once pricing is complete, stocking each item to the correct place on the store shelves using the first in, first out method.  These skills will enable students to work in a variety of actual retail settings, pricing and stocking all store items, with shared, remote supervision.  Write-up includes 4 photos and a detailed task analysis.

Detailed step by step teaching procedures are presented for teaching a variety of basic packaging/assembly tasks, generally completed in bulk for each task. Each task includes accessing work items, following a set of basic instructions and stacking finished product.  Specific tasks include: packaging by quantity and packaging by weight.  These are important skills for employment in a variety of settings.  The write-up includes 6 photos and 2 task analyses.

In this write-up, detailed teaching procedures and task analyses are presented for 10 different skills related to the vocational and life skill of maintaining a hotel room/bedroom/home.  Specific tasks include: stripping and making a bed; dusting/polishing surfaces; vacuuming; cleaning windows and mirrors; cleaning a sink/vanity; cleaning a bathtub; cleaning a toilet; sweeping, mopping; removing trash; and restocking supplies.  These skills can be applied to a variety of rooms in the student’s home or work environment and are important skills for independent functioning.

This write-up describes step by step NLG teaching procedures for achieving independence in completing a variety of basic office skills including: removing staples, shredding paper, folding letters, stuffing envelopes, addressing envelopes, folding newsletters, addressing newsletters, and collating and binding documents. 8 task analyses are offered as well as discussion of problem solving and generalization procedures for these core vocational skills. Each TA includes accessing working items and simple packaging of end products.

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles: 

• Simple Conversations 
• Following Directions Using Basic Positional Prepositions 
• Responding To Simple Who/What/Where/When Questions 
• Using Simple Sentence Structure 
• Teaching Receptive And Expressive Verbs

Identifying and labeling verbs/actions is a fundamental building block to a variety of language skills.  This write up describes a step by step method to teach and generalize this skill utilizing multiple exemplar training and sequential introduction of the skill in more complex situations and formats.  This method works well for all learners, and has been successful with learners who have difficulty generalizing.

Teaching procedures developed at NLG to allow students to learn to communicate in sentences the correct agent, action and object observed in the correct order.  Recognizing that this response constitutes a new behavior chain for most students, the method teaches the mechanics of creating a sentence using visual prompts vs. having the student memorize specific sentences.  This allows rapid generalization to novel sentences.  This method works well for visual learners.  The student should have already mastered identifying a variety of nouns and verbs before beginning this program.  Includes 8 photos of learning materials.

Describes an innovative set of teaching procedures used at NLG for teaching students more impaired by autism to answer simple WH questions such as (Who, What, Where, What Doing, When) from pictures, sentences and short stories where the answer is in the picture, oral information or text. The method described was designed to teach discrimination of each of the wh questions simultaneously through creating equivalence classes associated with each question. This method avoids the development of error patterns and has worked with a variety of types of learners. Student should know a large variety of nouns and verbs before beginning this program. Includes 4 photos of learning materials.

Developed for students who had failed using more standard methods, this innovative teaching approach presents step by step procedures for errorlessly teaching all the basic positional prepositions together using a common prompt that is then systematically faded.  This method has worked well for many types of learners because it avoids development of error patterns through teaching the relationship between the responses.  Includes 2 photos of learning materials.

A step by step procedure for teaching students with autism to initiate and maintain conversations.  The method emphasizes incorporating variety into statements and responses from the beginning of training.  This method works well for students who quickly memorize specific responses but have trouble generalizing or varying from preset scripts.  The method presented works well for visual/text based learners.  Includes 10 photos of learning materials.

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles:

• Addition, Subtraction Using A Number Line
• Using Fractions/Decimals/Percents In Functional Calculations
• Recording Time Worked And Calculating Wages
• Using An ATM
• Budgeting Skills
• Types Of Stores And What They Carry
• Grocery Shopping

Budgeting skills are essential to any money management curriculum.  Teaching these skills to students with autism requires a step by step process bringing together a variety of math, money and community skills.  In this write-up, step by step task analyzed teaching procedures are presented to teach students to create and follow an actual budget for the week through the following steps: determining how much money he/she has available; determining his/her planned activities and payments for the week, identifying the approximate cost of each; and, calculating the total cost for the week.  The student learns to subtract the amount needed for the week from the total amount of money he/she can access (money in his/her wallet, a paycheck, balance of a checking account, etc.) to determine if he/she has enough money and what amount of money he/she will have left after the week’s activities. If he/she does not have enough money, he/she adjusts his/her plans to ensure he/she has enough funds.  This write-up includes a detailed budgeting worksheet for use with students, and 3 visuals of learning materials as well as 2 task analyses.

This write-up presents NLG teaching procedures to teach students with autism to document the time of arrival to and departure from vocational work on any time sheet that includes the day of the week in any font.  Student is able to refer to any available digital clock to determine the time of arrival to and departure from vocational work at any time of the day.  These skills are essential to enabling students to recognize the link between hours worked and wages and to maintaining employment.

Once a student has mastered basic calculation, it is important to translate these skills into functional life skills to increase independence even if the student does not follow a grade level math curriculum.  NLG has developed and used the teaching procedures in this write-up to teach students to convert between fractions, decimals, and percents, without visual supports and generalize these skills to practical applications including applying calculating tax, tip, sale price, discount, retail price, and recipe quantities in functional situations using a calculator.  This write-up includes a step by step process for students who have prerequisites and provides 4 visuals of learning materials presenting the needed equations.

This innovative teaching methodology allows students to learn and generalize the concepts of addition and subtraction.  The basic tool used is the number line, a definitional mathematical concept: all math depends on an understanding of the order of and relationship between numbers.  Using the number line not only allows the student to master the listed skill but also gives the student the foundation needed to master the math skills that follow in the curriculum.  The Number line/hundred chart is an example of a “concept prompt.”  NLG uses “concept prompts” whenever practical in teaching skills that have stimuli or responses that are similar or “overlapping”.  Initially developed to assist students who had failed using other teaching methodologies, this method is now the standard at NLG and has been successful with a variety of learners.  The write up includes 5 photos of learning materials.

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles:

• Basic Office Skills
• Basic Laundry Skills
• Basic Hotel/Housekeeping Skills
• Basic Packaging Assembly Skills
• Retail Skills-Stocking Small Retail
• Retail Skills-Cashier For Small Retail
• Cafeteria Setup And Cleanup Skills
• Kitchen Skills

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles:

• Addition, Subtraction Using A Number Line
• Using Fractions/Decimals/Percents In Functional Calculations
• Recording Time Worked And Calculating Wages
• Using An ATM
• Budgeting Skills
• Types Of Stores And What They Carry
• Grocery Shopping

This specially priced bundle includes the following document titles: 

• Simple Conversations 
• Following Directions Using Basic Positional Prepositions 
• Responding To Simple Who/What/Where/When Questions 
• Using Simple Sentence Structure 
• Teaching Receptive And Expressive Verbs

Procedures and task analyses for teaching a variety of basic safety skills are described.  Skills include, responding to alarms, emergency personnel and law enforcement; basic first aid, appropriate reaction to medical emergencies and dangerous situations; using the phone to call for help; street crossing; what to do when lost; seeking assistance; and avoiding and appropriate reaction to household hazards. These are core safety skills for increasing independence and autonomy at home as well in the community. The ability to demonstrate these skills serve as prerequisites to more advanced independent living skills.

This write-up covers the entire sequence of skills involved in eating at a restaurant including, ordering, appropriate interactions with wait staff, table behavior, calculate tax and tip and pay for a meal.  In addition to a discussion of how to teach each skill the document includes 3 photos of materials and 3 detailed task analyses.

This write-up covers a variety of food preparation skills including: using a microwave, oven, stovetop and toaster; using a variety of common kitchen utensils, basic knife skills, basic food prep such as cracking an egg, measuring ingredients, and spreading with a knife;  following a recipe and food and kitchen safety.  Write-up includes 4 photos of materials and 19 task analyses for specific kitchen skills.

Task analyses and teaching procedures for basic and intermediate dressing skills are provided covering putting on and taking off: underwear, pullover and buttoned shirts, pants/shorts, socks, shoes, belt, coat, hats, gloves, scarf, work accessories, jewelry, selecting matching outfits, and dressing for the weather.  5 pictures of materials are provided along with 34 task analyses.

Detailed task analyses and teaching procedures for a variety of personal care skills including: washing face and hands, showering and taking a bath, putting on deodorant, brushing hair, brushing teeth, flossing, using mouthwash, blow drying hair, nail clipping, menstrual care, and using a public restroom.  These critical skills are a prerequisite to independence in daily life.  The write-up includes 7 photos/tables of teaching materials and 14 detailed task analyses.

This write-up provides step by step teaching procedures for teaching students to complete a variety of restaurant/cafeteria kitchen clean-up and maintenance tasks and perform multiple tasks in sequence, in a variety of situations.  These valuable job skills can also be generalized to the home environment.  Specific tasks include: washing dishes in a 3 basin sink, washing dishes in a commercial dishwasher, cleaning sinks, cleaning countertops; cleaning stove-tops; removing trash and sweeping the floor.  The write-up includes 6 detailed task analyses.