Life skills centers

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.

Listen to this Special Ed Podcast with 15 great ideas for Functional Centers for students with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism in High School. Read more and subscribe today!

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?…

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.

Over 100 Independent Functioning and Independent Living Life Skills IEP Goals, including ADLs, food prep, shopping, functional reading, and essential life skills.

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

Try this Mailing A Letter FREE valentines day kids activity for teaching life skills. This is perfect to use at home or in the classroom. This would be fun for a community helpers theme! #lifeskills #valentinescraft

Free Life Skills File Folder Activities for the independent work station in special education classrooms. Practice life skills for community integration!

Here are 20 center ideas that you can use for your self-contained classroom. I have it all listed out for you including pictures

Life Skills Field Trips & How to Plan Them - This is a practical blog post sharing ideas to help the special education teacher get permission and funding for field trips. Plus it includes tips for developing community relationships, prepping your students, must haves to take with, and more. You'll find great information here for early childhood, elementary, middle school, and high school students. Click through now for all the details!