From the article: Backward Chaining
Children with special needs may have a harder time than most learning how to do chores like bed-making, teeth-brushing, shoe-tying. Have you come up with a great way for teaching these necessary but hard-to-pick-up skills? Share Your Strategies
Teaching Life Skills
- I have taught life skills to special needs student for 20 years my students & I have developed a cookbook that has been very successful for them. You can find it at the following site. http://www.teaching-life-skills.com/index.html I hope that it helps you teach life skills. This book will be on CD by next month. It will allow students to read the recipe and hear the words. It works great.
- —lifeskills
Choosing school clothes
- I put seven hooks on my son's bedroom wall and hanging from each of them is a denim purse-like bag that you get at the hobby or fabric store. My son decorated each bag with fabric pens and wrote the days of the week on each bag. One day a week, usually Sunday, I helped my son choose daily outfits and put each outfit in the appropriate bag so he would learn how to choose clothes and how to prepare what to wear ahead of time. As he got better at this we would look at his weekly schedule to determine what clothes he should wear based on which activities he was scheduled to do each day. He learned to do this himself after time and it helped tremendously with the early morning rush--no more looking for that special shirt or missing pair of jeans!
- —Hazel62
