Functional life skills special education

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!

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

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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.

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

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?…

Classroom jobs are the perfect way to practice functional life skills and vocational skills in your secondary special education classroom. If you are looking for a list of age appropriate classroom jobs for your secondary special education classroom, this list is for you. Here you’ll find a complete list of classroom jobs and on campus jobs your special education students can do that help build independence while also practicing important life skills and vocational skills.

Do you want to work on life skills in your classroom? Are you looking for hands-on special education life skills activities that your students will love? If so, you've come to the right place. Because today, I'm sharing my top 10 life skills activities that you can do in your classroom. 1. Washing Hands One

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.

Make lesson planning easier by repeating activities. Keep reading to find out how each life skills activity is different each day.