Functional life skills activities

Do you practice life skills in your SPED classroom? If you don't, you should! Let me show you how to set up life skills centers.

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?…

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Life skills students can work on at home

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.

As Speech-Language Pathologists working with adolescents and young adults, we have a responsibility to ensure that our objectives and activities consider functional communication skills, in order to help our students best meet communication demands during all activities of daily living.

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

In this post, explore methods for teaching functional money math skills to special education students, focusing on real-world applications like budgeting, counting money, and making change. This guide provides hands-on activities and tips to make learning engaging and relevant. Perfect for special education teachers looking to equip students with essential life skills. Save this for later for functional math, special education, and teaching money management.