Keller Vocational

About Keller and its Goals:

  • These classrooms are designed to provide individual therapy sessions to students in their individual cubicles, while also providing an opportunity for group work across the day.
  • Each classroom has 8 cubicles where individual sessions are conducted.
  • Individual cubicles provide a distraction-free, structured environment to teach students a variety of skills across academic, social, vocational, self-help and communication domains.
  • Skills acquired successfully in an individual session are then generalized across different environments to ensure consistency in learning. 
  • Occupational therapy sessions along with other therapies are incorporated into a child’s daily schedule.
  • The classroom also has a central area designated for meal times, group activities, turn-taking games and social skill activities to facilitate peer interaction.

Areas of Focus:

1. Setup: The classroom features individual cubicles for each student to focus on theirspecific tasks and develop essential skills. Additionally, there is a group table thatprovides a safe space for students to gather for meals and engage in various groupactivities, allowing them to practice and enhance their social skills. We also have adesignated workspace on-site that enables students to learn essential vocational skills.

2. Functional Communication: The primary goal is to strengthen communication skills sothat students can make requests, solve problems, and make independent choices forthemselves.

3. Functional group activities: The emphasis is on organizing functional group activities,such as clerical tasks, computer work, and product creation. These activities offerstudents the chance to learn how to collaborate effectively in a team and practiceworkplace etiquette.

4. Independence and Generalisation of Skills: While we teach essential life skills to ourstudents, it’s equally important to ensure these skills are generalized across differentpeople and settings, with the goal of gradually reducing the level of assistance andsupervision.

5. Community Visits: We organize extensive community visits to help students generalizetheir skills in real-world settings. These experiences enhance their ability to apply whatthey’ve learned in practical situations.

6. Activities of daily living: Given the age group, we place a strong emphasis on reducingsupervision for daily living tasks and provide opportunities for activities like snackpreparation and more. We aim to create a path for holistic development that enhancesstudent’s overall well-being while building essential skills for independence and success.Our commitment is to empower our students to lead independent and fulfilling lives as adults.

Keller – vocational

About Keller and its Goals:

Named after Helen Keller, the American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer, The Keller Classroom focuses on supporting teens and young adults aged 16 and older. Its goal is to equip students for community life by enhancing their communication, social, functional academic, and vocational skills.

The program emphasizes personalized attention through a 1:1 setup to focus on developing each student’s specific skills across various areas and group tasks, such as assembly line work and clerical routines. This approach aims to improve social interaction, teamwork, workplace etiquette, and vocational skills. The main objective is to gradually reduce reliance on therapists while fostering independence in essential life skills, preparing students for a smooth transition to vocational settings.

Areas of Focus:

  1. Setup: The classroom features individual cubicles for each student to focus on their specific tasks and develop essential skills. Additionally, there is a group table that provides a safe space for students to gather for meals and engage in various group activities, allowing them to practice and enhance their social skills. We also have a designated workspace on-site that enables students to learn essential vocational skills.
  2. Functional Communication: The primary goal is to strengthen communication skills so that students can make requests, solve problems, and make independent choices for themselves.
  3. Functional group activities: The emphasis is on organizing functional group activities, such as clerical tasks, computer work, and product creation. These activities offer students the chance to learn how to collaborate effectively in a team and practice workplace etiquette.
  4. Independence and Generalisation of Skills: While we teach essential life skills to our students, it’s equally important to ensure these skills are generalized across different people and settings, with the goal of gradually reducing the level of assistance and supervision.
  5. Activities of daily living: Given the age group, we place a strong emphasis on reducing supervision for daily living tasks and provide opportunities for activities like snack preparation and more. We aim to create a path for holistic development that enhances student’s overall well-being while building essential skills for independence and success.Our commitment is to empower our students to lead independent and fulfilling lives as adults.