Functional life skills

Life skills students can work on at home

Listen to this Special Ed Podcast with 15 great ideas for Functional Centers for students with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism in High School. Read more and subscribe today!

I love using file folders because they are so easy to store and a great way to practice life skills when you are at a desk. Plus, my students always think they are playing games with file folders too.

Review of functional life skills curriculum for high school, transition, or middle school students in special education.

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Over 100 Independent Functioning and Independent Living Life Skills IEP Goals, including ADLs, food prep, shopping, functional reading, and essential life skills.

I have posted a few of my life skills worksheets in the past and have been selling them individually in my store for the past few months. I have now put quite a few of them together at a great discounted price! I also added a "Making an Appointment" worksheet that I put together yesterday. If you have already downloaded this item, please download it again to get the new worksheet. Update: "Asking for Help" worksheet added 1/29/13…

Functional money skills are crucial to our life skills students independence. Read about the money skills I teach my life skills students.

My students all arrive at different times in the morning, which makes it very difficult to teach a class before their breakfast is served. For the past 2 year I have been having the students write a morning message, since it can be done in their own time as they arrive. It contains the date, the weather, what we plan to do that day and than a note on what we will be doing tomorrow. I am not sure how much my students are really gaining from this, so I have decided to put together morning…

It's challenging to create functional life skills classrooms that target all of the different reading, math and communication goals our students have. Peek inside to see what components you need to create a functional lesson that leads to life long skills. Click to read now!