Individualized Education, Curriculum, and Training
Independent Pathways helps individuals with disabilities build knowledge and skills for relationships, sexuality, communication, daily living, and participation in their communities.
We provide individual education, family and caregiver guidance, professional training, and consultation. Our original curricula connect instruction with practical situations, such as communicating a boundary, planning a routine, requesting support, or making an informed decision.
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Practical education in daily living, planning and organization, communication, self advocacy, employment readiness, and community participation. Lessons connect understanding with practice, helping learners apply knowledge across home, school, and adult life.
What Individualized Education Looks Like
A person may understand a boundary but need support communicating it. They may know the steps of a routine but need a visual plan to get started. They may demonstrate a skill during a lesson and need practice using it somewhere else.
Independent Pathways considers where support is needed and adjusts instruction accordingly. Adaptations may include accessible language, visual supports, modeling, changes to pacing, and practice in everyday settings.
Meet the Founder
Marissa Pangle combines lived experience as an autistic adult with nearly twenty years of professional work in the disability field. She brings particular expertise in Medicaid Waiver behavior support, adaptive sexuality education, and individualized learning. Her academic background includes a master’s degree in behavior analysis and is a PhD candidate in Clinical Sexology. She is an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator and AASECT Approved Continuing Education Provider.
Marissa’s perspective connects personal understanding, professional practice, and academic knowledge in ways rarely represented within traditional education and support systems. She is direct, practical, and committed to making complex information understandable and useful. Rather than allowing a diagnosis to determine expectations, she focuses on the whole person and their right to knowledge, informed choice, autonomy, dignity, and meaningful participation.