ADAPTATIONS IN PROGRESS: making a few updates to create a better fit - stay tuned!
ADAPTATIONS IN PROGRESS: making a few updates to create a better fit - stay tuned!
Schools and community programs bring together different people, activities, environments, routines, and expectations. Functional Link looks at how those pieces work together and identifies practical ways to make it easier for more people to understand, engage, participate, and belong.
Often, small changes to an activity, environment, routine, communication strategy, or available support can make it possible for more people to participate alongside their peers and communities.
Functional Link helps community organizations identify those opportunities and develop solutions that fit their existing programs, staff, resources, and goals.
Listen & Learn
Identify & Integrate
Navigate & Trial
Keep & Sustain.”
Functional Link reviews programs, services, routines, and participant experiences to identify strengths, barriers, and practical opportunities to improve accessibility, inclusion, and participation.
Functional Link helps schools and community organizations design environments, activities, routines, communication, and participation options that work for a wider range of people from the start, reducing the need to rely on individual adaptations after barriers arise.
Functional Link helps adapt activities, materials, instructions, tools, environments, or participation options so people with different abilities and support needs have meaningful ways to engage.
Functional Link provides practical education and works alongside staff to address participation challenges, explore accommodations, and develop strategies that fit naturally into existing routines and programming.
Helping a camp, childcare center, recreation program, or community organization prepare for someone who may need different communication, sensory, mobility, behavioral, or participation supports.
Adjusting the way an activity is set up, explained, paced, or completed so participants have different ways to engage without being unnecessarily separated from the group.
Using clearer schedules, visual cues, environmental supports, and predictable routines to make changes between activities, spaces, or expectations easier to manage.
Adapting activities, routines, environments, or supports when changes in mobility, cognition, endurance, communication, sensory needs, or other abilities begin affecting participation.
Problem-solving alongside staff when someone is having difficulty engaging in an activity, transitioning between routines, communicating needs, or participating with the group.
Using clearer language, visual supports, consistent cues, accessible materials, or alternative ways to share information so participants can better understand expectations, choices, and instructions.
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