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.

June 15, 2013

Practicing Social Skills Digitally

New software may soon be available to help practice social skills for those who deal with anxiety. This has great potential for people who struggle with social interactions, such as those with autism.

Full article found here.

"Interpersonal skills are the key to being successful at work and at home," Hoque says. "How we appear and how we convey our feelings to others define us. But there isn't much help out there to improve on that segment of interaction."

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