August 2023

Community Based Instruction (CBI)

Leave a Comment / Blog, community based instruction / Erica Price

Community-Based Instruction (CBI) I taught high school-age students with moderate to severe disabilities for 24 years. During this time, CBI was (and still is) required in many places. What is CBI you ask? This is when we take students to different locations within the community to generalize skills we have explicitly and systematically taught. Did […]

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