Daily Living Skills
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Daily Living Skills provides intensive information on the skills young people need to move into adult life. Written for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students (but appropriate for all transitioning students) this curriculum is written on a high third-grade/low fourth grade level and includes video modeling, bullet-point information, website resources and parent information letters on a variety of topics. Chapters include:
1. Who Am I?
a. How Prepared are You? Quiz,
b. Briggs-Myers Typology
c. Learning Styles
2. Dress for Success
a. Keeping Clean
b. Hygiene Helpers
c. Success on a Shoestring
d. Shopping for Success
3. Cleaning House
a. Tools of the Trade
b. Sweep in Seven
c. Ready, Set, Clean!
d. Spring Cleaning Worksheet
4. Doing the Laundry
a. Organizing for Laundry Day
b. Sorting Basics
c. Folding—Lines of Symmetry
d. Hanging Clothes Worksheet
5. Kitchen Basics
a. Safety First
b. Accident Action Plan
c. Become a Clean Machine
d. Measuring Worksheet
e. Common Abbreviations
6. Nutrition
a. Food Pyramid
b. Food Labels
c. Value of Vitamins
d. Calorie Counting
e. Eating on the Cheap
7. Making My Meals
a. Microwave Safety
b. Microwave Burritos
c. One-Pan Pasta Combos
d. Lovely Lentils
8. Grocery Shopping
a. Cost Comparing Worksheet
b. Coupon Organization
c. Impulse Buying
d. Organizing the Fridge
e. Meal Planning Worksheet
f. Food Storage
9. Staying Healthy
a. Checking Up on Me
b. Home Medicine Cabinet
c. Is it Serious?
d. Being my own Doctor
e. It’s All in Your Head (Mental Health)
10. Paying Bills
a. Creating a Budget
b. Bill Paying Calendar
c. Writing a Check/Using ATM
d. Saving vs. Spending
11. Transportation
a. The City Grid
b. Finding my Way
c. Public Transit
d. My Driver’s License Game
12. Time Management
a. Organizing Your Life
b. Entry Hall Organization
c. The Calendar
d. My Daily Living Schedule
