Special eduction resources and ideas specifically geared toward helping those with exceptionalities.
What Is Life Skills?
Life Skills is a type of special education class that is designed for students with severe and/or multiple exceptionalities. It is made to teach basic skills that are essential for life (hence the name life skills). This means anything from cooking, cleaning, grooming to balancing a checkbook, cashing a check, filling out a time sheet, to even basic yes/no communication. Depending on the students needs, life skills class varies greatly.
This is a picture schedule I made for one of my students. It is on the back of a clipboard so that the front can clip onto wheelchair tray. The icons are attached with Velcro so the student can move the icon of the current activity to the top of the board.
This blog is about all things special education related. I started this blog to share my thoughts and ideas that come from being a special education life skills teacher (the best job on earth). I'm looking for other people's thoughts and ideas about all things life skills. PLEASE, please, please, email with pictures and ideas of things you do in your class or with your kids. E-mail ideas to sara.kerbs.r@gmail.com so I can post them and share with the community.