Empowerment through financial literacy
Educational. Engaging. Encouraging. Enjoyable. Empowering.
Making Money Easy assists children, teens and adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability in gaining counting and money handling skills to build their financial independence. Designed to make learning fun in an easy to use and accessible online environment, the program guides participants through each module with encouragement and goal setting.
Making Money Easy for
Individuals
Learn basic to more complex financial skills with quizzes, games and narrated modules in a fun, encouraging online environment.
Making Money Easy for
Organisations
The course
Every individual has their own capacity to learn. Making Money Easy has been created with three levels – Basic, Intermediate and Advanced – so that participants can begin at their appropriate skill level. The program has ten modules, all narrated and each featuring a variety of quizzes, real life examples and additional suggested content to help bring the learning to life!
Making Money Easy is assistive and supportive. Participants can repeat each module as often as needed and then progress to the next one when ready.
Making Money Easy - Basic
In this introduction to the basics of counting and money handling, participants learn how to count to one hundred, identify and count using money and learn about price rounding and practise shopping exercises. This level is an excellent starting point for all participants, even if their skills are more advanced, to discover how Making Money Easy can assist them to learn how to use money in daily life.
Making Money Easy - Intermediate
Participants recap on the concepts learned in the Basic section. They look at needs versus wants, how to pay using the correct change and without the correct money. They learn how to plan and develop a budget and focus on budget goals as they work towards independence in money handling.
Making Money Easy - Advanced
The Advanced level teaches participants about various online banking services such as ATMs, tap and go and paying with credit cards. They are taught how to read bills and payslips, pay bills and shop online and learn about online security and their rights and responsibilities as a consumer.
The course
Every individual has their own capacity to learn. Making Money Easy has been created with three levels – Basic, Intermediate and Advanced – so that participants can begin at their appropriate skill level. The program has ten modules, all narrated and each featuring a variety of quizzes, real life examples and additional suggested content to help bring the learning to life!
Making Money Easy is assistive and supportive. Participants can repeat each module as often as needed and then progress to the next one when ready.
Making Money Easy - Basic
In this introduction to the basics of counting and money handling, participants learn how to count to one hundred, identify and count using money and learn about price rounding and practise shopping exercises. This level is an excellent starting point for all participants, even if their skills are more advanced, to discover how Making Money Easy can assist them to learn how to use money in daily life.
Making Money Easy - Intermediate
Participants recap on the concepts learned in the Basic section. They look at needs versus wants, how to pay using the correct change and without the correct money. They learn how to plan and develop a budget and focus on budget goals as they work towards independence in money handling.
Making Money Easy - Advanced
The Advanced level teaches participants about various online banking services such as ATMs, tap and go and paying with credit cards. They are taught how to read bills and payslips, pay bills and shop online and learn about online security and their rights and responsibilities as a consumer.
Utilise NDIS funding
Making Money Easy assists individuals in building independence through gaining understanding and skills in courting, money handling and financial literacy. Participants can purchase the program via their NDIS plan as daily adaptive technology, which sits in core support.
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Why choose Making Money Easy?
At Participate Australia, our purpose is to make a difference in the lives of people who live with intellectual disability by respecting their autonomy, freedom of choice and independence, and by supporting the achievement of their goals.
The Making Money Easy program is designed to assist individuals gain financial knowledge and skills that empower them to make appropriate choices and enjoy control over their own money. This is an important step towards increased independence and we are pleased to help facilitate that for these valuable members of the community.
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