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LDI Aspects
Teaching
The academic program builds work skills and includes career planning and
guidance for future employability. Students are taught core values and
shown then, by example, how to live by these values. LDI assists each
student to set attainable goals, continued by helping to develop confidence
and leadership skills in order for the students to achieve their goals.
Also, LDI teaches that daily life is rich with options and that those
opportunities are there through the course of a lifetime.
Inspiring: The program builds skills for making healthy life choices as
an independent adult with the intent to give students hope. Adult role
models are presented that encourage and mentor students. These models
reinforce esteem and optimism for the students and their place in the
world.
Supporting
The LDI supports personal growth and maturation. Students learn social
and relationship skills essential for living and working in the community
of their future. The LDI staff serves as advocates for men and women with
hidden disabilities. It strives to inform the students' families and the
community-at-large of issues that have potential impact on all adults
with these conditions.
Building
Personal leadership is reflected through empowerment and self-determination.
The LDI staff is mission-focused and dedicated to serving the unique needs
of each individual. Its programs are structured and services are personalized,
offering simultaneously high standards and flexibility. As LDI mentors
its students, they taught and learn to be their own advocate and spokesperson
in the adult world.
Student's individual needs and strengths are emphasized through instruction
at the LDI. Technology and learning strategies are utilized to enhance
the academic development of each student. Flexible scheduling, to accommodate
student work schedules and college coursework, is implemented so as no
student is left out of academic instruction.
The LDI focuses its classroom instruction on career planning. Students
receive training on developing career paths, identifying their own functional
strengths and limitations, and employment that suits their temperament.
In addition to career planning, students receive advocacy training and
instruction on how and when to disclose their disability to an employer,
and the laws that protect them from discrimination based on their disability.
Social activities are incorporated into the LDI curriculum to facilitate
the practical application of social skill instruction. Social interaction
is not only encouraged but also instructed and monitored through the auspices
of the program. Informal interaction and observation in social situations
allows faculty to meet the specific needs of each of the students.
LDI provides an independent, yet supportive living environment. Its program
allows students to gain independence through the real life experience
of living on their own.
LDI students live in a large, open community complex in one or two-bedroom
apartments. They may live alone or with a roommate wherein they are paired
by age, lifestyle, and temperament. Often, the students' parents collaborate
to provide the apartments with furniture and household necessities.
Residential staff assists students with everyday needs. Staff helps students
one-on-one as needed, hold clinics to teach routine cleaning and maintenance
techniques, menu planning, and cooking classes. LDI students take pride
in being able to perform particular tasks independently. They benefit
from the close assistance and supervision.
The foundation of the LDI success is that its staff can and does take
the time to form personal relationships with the students and their families.
This commitment of service demonstrates to LDI students a positive direction
of personal growth where they have the opportunity to experience success
as adults.
