Independent Living Skills Training (ILS) Services

 

Services that develop, maintain and improve the community living skills of a person. ILS training is provided in the person’s home and/or settings typically used by the general public in the community.
Examples of ILS training in the person’s home and/or community setting:
• Learning how to cook in the person’s kitchen
• Learning how to balance a checkbook
• Using the bus system to learn how to ride a bus
Life-Linx LLC helps design the methods used to provide ILS training to meet the following outcomes:
• Increase the person’s independence by teaching skills so tasks and activities may be performed with decreased dependence on staff
• Increase the person’s opportunities to interact with people without disabilities who are not paid staff
• Provide skill training in an environment where the skill will be used
• Increase the person’s independence in being self-sufficient with schedules, routines, and interactions
• Support development of decision-making skills and informed choices in aspects of daily living including goals and methods, location of residence, roommates, leisure activities and other personal choices