Connecticut program teaches young adults to live on their own
August 8th, 2008
The Hartford Courant compares the Vista Vocational & Life Skills Center in Westbrook with a college or university. It helps students improve their life skills, build self esteem, develop friendships, and become involved in work and volunteering.
But there’s a key difference: Vista’s students have cognitive or intellectual disabilities.
An excerpt:
“We call it a life skills college,” said Vista executive director Helen Bosch. “If you imagine a university and people having to make a choice about where they are going after high school, for people with disabilities, we are like a university after high school.”
Bosch says many Vista students go on to be completely self-sufficient.
(Hartford Courant photo. Student Alyssa Earwaker lives in an apartment and takes vocational and life skills classes.)
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