Functional life skills activities

Life skills students can work on at home

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.

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.

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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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!

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

Try this Mailing A Letter FREE valentines day kids activity for teaching life skills. This is perfect to use at home or in the classroom. This would be fun for a community helpers theme! #lifeskills #valentinescraft

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.

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.