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I have been teaching special education for the past 15 years and have often heard teachers not wanting to teach life skills explicitly. Achieving independence is the single most important thing that we can teach to students with special needs.
Neurotypical students learn basic functional life skills by imitating their peers, teachers, and other people in their lives. Many of our students, especially autistic students, struggle with these imitation skills and need that explicit life skills instruction.
It is never too early to start introducing functional life skills to your students. Remember, this is definitely NOT all that you need to be teaching. Academic skills are still very important and should be taught every day.
After struggling for a long time on how and what to teach, I finally created materials from scratch on how to teach basic functional life skills. I wanted a way to integrate these basic life skills into what I was already teaching. I decided to divide the life skills into 12 different categories that I could teach over the course of 12 months.
12 months of resources
I like to store my units in these large scrapbook cases! That fits everything in there, plus there is room for me to add extra things like real money or toothbrushes, depending on which unit it is!
You can grab the entire functional life skills curriculum in my TpT shop!
My favorite part of all of these units in this curriculum is all the task boxes that you get. I am obsessed with using them in my independent work systems!
They are so easy to store and use and my students think they are playing games but they are learning.
If you don't follow me on Instagram, you can do that here. I will be sharing videos about each unit as they come out in my stories, or check out my story highlights!
If you are not subscribed to my email list, you can do that here. I will be sending out emails as each unit is released and offering them at HALF OFF for the first 24 hours to those that get the email!!
Don't forget, that you can purchase each of these units separately, however, you will be missing out on the 30% discount if you purchase the bundle.
I am a High School, self-contained Autism teacher from Central New York, who is passionate about individualizing student learning. I am a mommy of three, lover of all things Disney, married to my best friend and addicted to chocolate!! I hope that you find great ideas and inspiration here, so welcome!!
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