- PMD: 3
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Introduction
- Poster Session 8: Promoting Academic Success
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- understand the need for further investigation into addressing and improving foundational academic skill deficits as they relate to fostering independent living skills in students with intellectual and developmental disabilities;
- learn the connection between independent living skills and independent purchasing skills for postsecondary students with intellectual and developmental disabilities; and
- learn how the counting-on strategy can be used to improve students’ independent purchasing skills by teaching them to quickly and accurately count dollar bills.
Description
The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a small group-based financial literacy intervention at increasing the independent purchasing skills, an important independent living skill, of postsecondary students with disabilities.
Presenter(s)
Addison L. Welch, University of Tennessee
Chelsea N. Price, University of Tennessee
Hannah L. Collins, University of Tennessee
Keri A. Keller, University of Tennessee
Contributor(s)
Christopher H. Skinner
