Life skills for adults with disabilities

Do you work with or know an adult with an intellectual disability? In this post, Hendrix Brakefield, gives his best tips for teaching life skills education to adults with intellectual disabilities. You'll find what the life skills are that intellectually disabled adults need, cooking, reading, health and fitness, and more. You'll also find a guide on how you can teach these skills that includes scaffolding and modeling. Be sure to check it out! #intellectualdisabilitylifeskills

Find engaging classroom job skills ideas with these easy to set up job prep activities for special education and students with disabilities.

Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism

It's surprises me every year how my whole classroom shifts on what they like and what they don't like to do. The last two years, not one student has touched the puzzles on my shelves. This year, it is like the hot ticket activity. I even had to buy a couple extra so there was enough to go around. I remember about three years ago my box of pattern blocks was what everyone wanted to play with. The last couple years no one seems to care for them at all. Last week a co-worker of mine bought a…

My students all arrive at different times in the morning, which makes it very difficult to teach a class before their breakfast is served. For the past 2 year I have been having the students write a morning message, since it can be done in their own time as they arrive. It contains the date, the weather, what we plan to do that day and than a note on what we will be doing tomorrow. I am not sure how much my students are really gaining from this, so I have decided to put together morning…

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As Speech-Language Pathologists working with adolescents and young adults, we have a responsibility to ensure that our objectives and activities consider functional communication skills, in order to help our students best meet communication demands during all activities of daily living.

Why is choice-making important? Learn all about its role in empowering special education students. Understand the significance of decision making and fostering autonomy. Support life skills development and discover how offering choices cultivates self-determination. Explore essential choice-making skills to support SPED students. Save this for later to equip your students with the tools they need to make confident choices. Teaching life skills

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.