Daily living skills for special needs

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

Self-Care and Daily Life Skills include some of the most important occupations children learn as they grow. This blog will focus on ADLs and provide strategies to help a child sequence and execute personal hygiene tasks.

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…

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Task boxes can be highly beneficial for special education students for several reasons: They provide structured learning by way of presenting learning materials in an organized way, they provide visual supports, repetition & practice, and skill generalization. Task boxes can also be customized to meet each individual student’s needs and IEP goals, promote independence, and […]

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.

A list of student business ideas for special education students to practice independence, money math, cooking, responsibility, and so much more!

Grab Your FREE Special Education Functional Life Skills Idea List from Full SPED Ahead Ever wanted ideas for your special education classroom to use job skills and daily living skills? This free download is perfect for any sped classroom looking for some extra age-approriate activities. Perfect for all ages and abiilities!

How to teach simple budgeting skills to let students know if they have enough money for purchase an item. Great for visual learners and special education classrooms.