Life Skills Lessons and Resources for Young Adults

Life Skills activities and resources to prep middle and high school students for life after high school. Resources, lesson plans, and ideas for everything from stranger danger, solving problems, critical thinking, following directions, weather forecasts, preparing for an interview, writing emails, and more. Speech pathologists and parents use these life skills lessons for young adults and teens to use during school, home, private practice, and teletherapy.
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Fall 4 Step Sequencing Life Skills Print & Go
This print and go activity contains 15 different tasks, each containing 4 steps, in which students are asked to sequence the events in the correct order. Each picture contains a corresponding picture stimuli and a short description of each task, all relating to fall. Whats Included? 15 different tasks related to fall 15 blank boards to attach steps to A picture representation and description of each task
Preparing for a Job Interview Boom Cards™
Are you looking for a fun and interactive way to work on functional communication by preparing for an interview for high school students and young adults? This deck consists of 55 vocational task cards focusing on common interview questions and etiquitte. Page 1 is a MENU card to navigate to the desired area to target. Target areas include: ⭐️ open response interview questions ⭐️ yes/no questions regarding interviewing etiquette ⭐️ multiple choice responses regarding interviewing etiquette
Around the Home Life Skills Vocabulary WH Questions Bingo Bundle
These print and go bingo cards contain 4 different bingo cards per question type for a total of 20 bingo cards and 24 "wh" questions per question type for a total of 120 "wh" question cards. All vocabulary in this activity is related to objects and locations found within a home environment and pertain to activities of daily living. This is a print and go activity that can be laminated and used over and over again for increased durability for middle school, high school, and young adult students!
Self-Advocacy Skills Printable Packet for Older Students
This printable packet to teach self-advocacy skills is perfect for older students to build their confidence, help them take more risks, and ask for help and clarification. These comprehensive printable lessons consist of 9 different worksheets for students and teachers to work though together in order to best understand each student's unique interests, desires, needs, rights, strengths, and weaknesses, in order to improve self-advocacy skills in the home, school, and community environments.
Fall 3-4 Step Sequencing Activities of Daily Living Speech Boom Cards™
Students practice dragging and dropping each step into the correct order to sequence the target activity. All picture are high quality, real life pictures that students can easily relate to. Students are provided with immediate feedback after they submit their response. This is the perfect sequencing resource for both teletherapy and in-person therapy!
Life Skills Workplace Job Skills Practice Speech Boom Cards™
Are you looking for a fun and interactive way to work on functional communication related to preparation to enter the workforce? This Boom Cards™ deck consists of 60 digital task cards and is filled with something for every high school and young adult student needing additional practice as they get ready to transition to the employment setting! This resource includes 3 different activities, including: Workplace Etiquette, Workplace Problem Solving, and Workplace Vocabulary.
Writing Emails Leveled Practice Speech Boom Cards™
In this LEVELED Boom Card deck, there is something for every student to work on by writing and correcting emails, as well as understanding email etiquette. Teachers can select from the 4 different activities provided within the same deck: ⭐️ Email Etiquette with yes/no responses ⭐️ Writing Emails given situation prompts ⭐️ Correcting Emails by identifying 3 things wrong with each sample ⭐️ Writing Blank Emails with instructions provided by the teacher
FREE Problem Solving Summer Task Cards
This Problem Solving Summer Task Card deck is a part of my FREEBIE LIBRARY to all of my email subscribers! You can get access to this and TONS of other resources, all perfect for older students and young adults to work on life skills in activities of daily living. This is great for speech therapist, life skills teachers, and special education teachers.
Life Skills Homework for the Year Printable Packet
Homework and morning work targeting life skills in activities of daily living can be fun and functional! If you are struggling to find life skills morning work or homework activities that target functional topics that are practical and developmentally appropriate, then this 52 weeks of life skills printable homework is for you! Includes sample parent letter, 52 pages of homework with 18 different life skills topics, and a picture representation of each topic.
RESOURCES TO PROMOTE SELF-ADVOCACY SKILLS IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS
While some of my life skills students begin to talk about transitioning into the employment setting, and prepare for life after high school, I’ve been doing lots of research on ways to best support them and their self-advocacy skills during this transition period. I’ve put together just a few of my favorite resources that I’ve discovered along the way to teach self-advocacy to adolescents and young adults with disabilities.
Functional Reading Comprehension Skills Homework Packet
Homework and morning work targeting functional reading comprehension should be fun and interactive! If you are struggling to find life skills reading comprehension morning work or homework activities that target functional topics that are practical and developmentally appropriate, then this 52 weeks of reading comprehension printable homework packet is for you! Includes parent letter, 52 pages of homework with 23 different reading comprehension activities, 2 questions related to each activity.
Life Skills Calendar Homework for the Year
If you are struggling to find life skills tasks at home, school, and in the community that are practical, developmentally appropriate, and functional, then this 12 months of life skills printable homework calendar is for you! Whats Included? Sample Parent Letter Instructions 12 calendar pages with 35 different activities per month A picture representation of each activity to provide visual support of the task
Activities of Daily Living Life Skills Speech Therapy Boom Cards™ BUNDLE
Are you looking to target functional communication in activities of daily living? Well, look no further! This deck consists of 10 digital task cards resources for teens and young adults to address life skills in their school, home, and community environments. All decks are no prep with digital, interactive task cards for your speech therapy and special education older students. All resources consist of real-life scenarios and high quality pictures that older students can easily relate.
Life Skills Task Cards Bundle for Activities of Daily Living
Are you looking for task cards to address life skills in activities of daily living? This Life Skills Task Cards BUNDLE contains 6 task cards sets that address the following skills: ⭐️ Expired and Not Expired Foods ⭐️ Cleaning Supplies ⭐️ Sorting Recycling ⭐️ Sorting Food Items ⭐️ Personal Safety ⭐️ Safety Signs ⭐️ Bonus: Cooking Tools
Resources to Help Teach Children and Adults to Sequence Activities of Daily Living
In this blog post, I cover some of my favorite resources I use to help teach children and young adults how to break up steps and provide visual cues to support them as they learn to sequence steps involved in daily living tasks. There are both printable and digital task cards included in this list of resources.