Life skills students can work on at home

Someone asked for examples of functional writing skills a few weeks ago on the FB page and it got my brain rolling!! So, I've spent the la...

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

It's one thing to do worksheets that have word problems involving money, but being able to transfer money skills in the community is another skill to master. Here are some ideas to prepare your students for the community and beyond!

Using environmental print to navigate the world and interact with others is a critical life skill. Sometimes it's easy to get stuck on the IEP goals and how to write them effectively. This post talks about how to teach meaningful, practical and functional sight words to students with all types of disabilities. It also provides you with IEP goals that you can think about and modify as needed for your students. Finally it points you in the direction of ready-made resources yo... via…

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!

Believe it or not, opportunities for teaching and learning functional math skills are everywhere! Here are some you might be missing!

No academics before Halloween? Yes, you read that correctly. As a functional life skills teacher, I don’t focus on academics the first 6-8 weeks of school. Instead, I focus on routines and expectations, independent work tasks, independent skills, and collecting baseline data in the first 6 weeks of school. This allows my special education students to get into a routine, and know what to expect as we start the school year. Learn how I structure my day during the first weeks of school here.

Scatterplot - Functional Academic Assessment