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2. Providers must produce a rationale for each activity on how it aligns to state
standards.
Project Reach looked to the Social Emotional Standards
http://www.isbe.net/ils/social_emotional/standards.htm and under Goal 2 ("Use
social-awareness and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive
relationships") found alignment with Learning Standard C ("Use communication and
social skills to interact effectively with others"). Because of the particular challenges
that students who are deaf-blind have in developing strong concepts of the world
incidentally, the intervener or teacher plays a critical role as a social bridge for
students- helping them first connect to people and then to concepts in the
environment. When modules 1-4 are taken as a whole, student and intervener should
communicate more effectively with each other at the end of the modules.
References
Illinois State Board of Education (n.d.). Illinois Learning Standards for
Social/Emotional Learning (SEL). Retrieved from
http://www.isbe.net/ils/social_emotional/standards.htm.
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