Specialized habilitation can help individuals create healthy relationships, adapt to challenges, and improve overall quality-of-life.

What is Specialized Habilitation?
Specialized habilitation offers teaching and training to learn or maintain skills in various areas. Areas are limited to:

• self-empowerment

• safety awareness and self-advocacy

• interpersonal skills and effective communication

• coping strategies regarding typical life challenges

• learning how to manage daily tasks to gain adaptive skills.

Examples of Specialized habilitation:

• Building self-esteem and confidence

• Developing strengths and weaknesses to handle daily problems

• Safely using social media or the internet

• Receiving sexual education to promote healthy personal relationships

• Learning how to problem-solve situations involving inappropriate peer pressure

• Developing other social skills necessary to maximize integration into the community and/or home environment

• How to handle missing the bus

• Getting used to a new caregiver or medical professional, roommate or other staff

• Learning how to use a vending machine or another nontraditional shopping method

• Ordering food in a restaurant, online or via phone.