Life skills for adults with disabilities

Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism

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…

Special education expert, Hendrix Brakefield, gives his best tips for teaching life skills education to adults with intellectual disabilities.

Since my students are adults, I think it is important for them to learn to call in their own absences instead of mom or dad. Here is a quick worksheet on calling in an absence. We have a practice telephone in class that we will use to role play after we do the worksheet. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Life-Skills-Calling-in-Sick-247478

Are you struggling trying to find functional life skills curriculum in your special education classroom? Read on to learn more...

I have listed some basic life skills that everyone needs to know. You can get my free printable life skills checklist below.

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.

Give your kids the skills they need to navigate the world on their own with this list of life skills for teens.

Are you looking for resources to develop self-advocacy skills in teens and young adults? I have put together some of my favorite Boom Cards™, print & go resources, websites, and videos that help teach self-advocacy skills in school, in the home, in the community, and in the workplace. Check out my blog post to see some of my favorite self-advocacy resources I use during my speech therapy sesions.

Money, money, money, money, monnnnnney... So most of my students probably won't have to pay bills, but who knows maybe some of them will. Even if they never pay a bill in their life I figure it's good to know what's going on - because someone in their life is paying for all the things they have. So with this activity, I expect that my students will know what a bill is, the things we have to pay for (electricity, phones, internet, etc), and that money is need to pay for things - all good…