Interest-Based Enrichment

Personalized online sessions built around curiosity, communication, and connection

Interest-Based Enrichment sessions are personalized online learning experiences for teens and adults with developmental disabilities.

Each session begins with the individual’s interests, preferences, curiosity, and pace. Together, we explore meaningful topics and use them as a starting point for communication, creativity, confidence, choice-making, and connection.

What an Enrichment Session May Look Like

Each session is thoughtfully planned, but flexible. Some individuals may enjoy completing activities together with support, while others may be learning tools, routines, or skills they can use more independently over time.

A session might include choosing a topic, looking up information, comparing options, using visuals, creating a project, practicing new vocabulary, making a personal connection to the topic, or sharing the finished activity with someone important to them.

Some sessions may lead to a completed project, like a digital scrapbook page or slideshow. Others may focus more on exploration, discussion, learning, or discovering what the individual wants to dive into next.

Examples of Enrichment in Action

Digital Scrapbooking

A session focused on digital scrapbooking might include using Canva to explore fonts, compare design choices, create a weather map, look up temperatures in favorite cities, learn simple design tools, choose photos or graphics, and add journaling to a page. The finished page can become part of an ongoing digital scrapbook or slideshow that may be shared with family.

World Cup

A session focused on the World Cup might look completely different. We might learn the basic rules of soccer, identify teams, explore uniforms and colors, locate countries on a map, track scores, follow favorite teams, and talk about what makes the event exciting.

Some sessions may lead to a completed project, like a digital scrapbook page or slideshow. Others may focus on exploration, discussion, learning, or discovering what the individual wants to dive into next.

Finding the Right Starting Point

Some individuals come to enrichment sessions with a clear interest they already love. Others may need time to explore different topics, activities, and ideas before something stands out.

Together, we can try different directions — such as music, animals, sports, maps, recipes, current events, creative projects, online research, favorite places, or personal memories — and notice what brings the most curiosity, engagement, and connection.

The topic does not have to be broad or typical. Sometimes the most meaningful sessions begin with a very specific interest.

Explore sample enrichment topics.