Life Skills Activities for Special Children

This book offers teachers and parents a unique collection of ready-to-use activities complete with student worksheets, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions to help exceptional students acquire the basic skills needed to achieve independence and success in everyday life. 400 pages.

Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations. It gives special children the extra focus they need to understand how to fit into the real world and how to develop the skills needed to become more independent in their homes, at school, and in the community. Includes complete teacher instructions from objective and introduction through optional extension activities and methods to assess student learning.

For easy and effective use, each area of development comes with a reproducible Letter to Parents, informing them what their children are learning and a ready-to-be-filled-in progress report. Each activity gives you step-by-step directions, teaching suggestions, learning objectives, and answer keys.

Features:

• 190 complete activities with reproducible worksheets, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions for developing independence
• Reproducible parent letters which can be sent home to help parents reinforce these lessons while children are away from school
• Ideas for developing practical skills to deal with identity theft, cell phone manners, budgeting, eating healthy meals, using credit cards, time management, and much more

Author: Darlene Mannix, M.A., has 26 years of experience as a classroom teacher and has taught both general education and special education. She is the best-selling author of numerous books for special educators.