4. Chronologically age-appropriate activities and skills

People with disabilities are encouraged to participate in activities which their non-disabled peers tend to engage in and instructional emphasis is placed on skills which are age-appropriate.

 

Why?

• We want to minimize the stigmatizing discrepancies between people with disabilities and their nondisabled peers.
• We want to respectfully regard people as adults and encourage them to regard themselves as adults as well.
• Age-appropriate activities are needed to allow people to acquire skills to perform as independently as possible.