Education, Consultation, and Training

Find individualized education for yourself, practical guidance for your family, or training for your organization. Independent Pathways supports learning in sexuality, relationships, daily living, communication, self advocacy, and community participation.

Services are designed around your goals, learning needs, and setting.

How We Can Help

Adaptive Sexuality Education

Individualized education about bodies, puberty, privacy, consent, relationships, identity, sexual health, and safety. Instruction can help learners communicate boundaries, understand relationship expectations, ask questions, and make informed decisions. Teaching methods, language, visual supports, and pacing are adapted to the individual’s learning and communication needs.

Life, My Way™

Connecting personal goals with practical skills for adolescence and adulthood. Instruction can address planning routines, organizing tasks, requesting accommodations, navigating community resources, preparing for employment, and participating in everyday decisions.

Family and Caregiver Education

Practical guidance for parents, guardians, and support people navigating puberty, privacy, relationships, safety, daily living, and transition to adulthood. Learn ways to explain concepts, respond to questions, support communication, and provide assistance while respecting the individual’s choices and autonomy.

Professional Training and Continuing Education

Training for educators, clinicians, service providers, and organizations on accessible education, adaptive sexuality education, autonomy, and ethical support. Sessions connect professional responsibilities with practical examples, instructional strategies, and tools participants can use in their settings. Continuing education availability and requirements are identified for each offering.

Consultation and Educational Planning

Focused support for a specific educational question, challenge, or planning need. Consultation can address adapting materials, identifying barriers to learning, selecting instructional strategies, or coordinating approaches across families and support teams. Recommendations consider the person’s goals, communication, environment, and available supports.

Speaking and Workshops

Keynotes, conference presentations, panel discussions, and workshops for professional and community audiences. Topics include disability, neurodiversity, adaptive sexuality education, rights, relationships, and autonomy. Presentations combine lived experience, professional knowledge, and concrete examples tailored to your audience.

Let’s Identify the Right Support

Email Marissa with a brief description of who the services are for, what you would like help with, and any timing or location preferences.

You do not need to choose a curriculum or know exactly which service you need before reaching out.