Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills and Adaptive Living Skills Curriculum

CATEGORIES: Behavioural, Developmental

AUTHORS: CALS: Lanny E. Morreau, Robert H. Bruininks.
ALSC: Robert H. Bruininks, Lanny E. Morreau, Cheri J. Gilman, Jean L. Anderson (1991)

SUMMARY

An integrated system designed for flexibility.

The Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS) and the Adaptive Living Skills Curriculum (ALSC) are part of an integrated systems approach that links assessment, instruction, and evaluation. Statistically linked to the Scales of Independent Behavior Revised (SIB-R) and the Inventory for Client and Agency Planning (ICAP), these two tools provide the link that takes you from he global assessment to prescription and then to actual instruction.

Use the entire system and get the full benefit of its integrated design, or choose the element or elements that meet your needs. Each element can be used independently or in conjunction with the other elements.

CALS and ALSC look at approximately 800 specific behaviours organized into 24 specific modules within four broad domains: Personal Living Skills, Home Living Skills, Community Living Skills, and Employment Skills.

Each behaviour in CALS has a corresponding instructional unit in ALSC. Behaviours cover the continuum of development from infancy to adulthood.

Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS)

CALS is a comprehensive, criterion-referenced checklist that will allow you to target the specific behaviours each individual needs to develop. CALS is the ideal planning tool. It determines instructional needs, develops individual training objectives, and provides a continuoys record of progress. CALS is also a comprehensive evaluation tool that targets specific skills needed, leads directly to prescription, and links assessment to instruction. CALS is the perfect tool for collaborative or transdisciplinary decision-making.

Adaptive Living Skills Curriculum (ALSC)

ALSC is a complete curriculum based on real-life important behaviours necessary to live as successfully and independently as possible in natural community settings. ALSC provides an instructional unit for each behaviour in CALS. Each unit provides goals and precise measurable training objectives, specifies the most natural setting and materials for teaching the skill, introduces concepts and vocabulary, provides a range of activities for developing the skill, and states performance standards for evaluating the objective.

COMPONENTS

COMPONENTS	ISBN	PRICE (Cdn. $)
CHECKLIST OF ADAPTIVE LIVING SKILLS
CALS Complete Program (includes Manual, 25 Checklists)	9-22163	$199.25
Checklists (Pkg. 25)	9-22210	$143.00
ADAPTIVE LIVING SKILLS CURRICULUM
ALSC Complete Program (includes Manual, 4 Curriculum Guides listed below)	9-22176	$856.00
Personal Living Skills (includes Manual, 1 Curriculum Guide)	9-22175	$245.15
Home Living Skills (includes Manual, 1 Curriculum Guide)	9-22173	$245.15
Community Living Skills (includes Manual, 1 Curriculum Guide)	9-22171	$245.15
Employment Skills (includes Manual, 1 Curriculum Guide)	9-22167	$197.95

Prices are in effect October 1, 2005.