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FREE YOURSELF FROM THE
CHANGE THE

WAY YOU DO CHALLENGES OF THE LIFE SKILLS

THERAPY

CLASSROOM

For those of us who have had the opportunity to
We make
work in a life skills classroom, we know that it can be the
powerful most rewarding and most challenging experience. The

interven on problem is that this situa on is almost always heavily
weighted toward the challenging end of the spectrum. But
materials that
does it have to be?
get be8er each

me we use In a project we began in the elementary schools, we asked
ourselves what the most difficult aspects of working in a life skills
them. classroom are. These are not going to be unfamiliar to you.

 Wide range of impairments (cogni ve, physical, behavioral, etc.)

 Variety of communica on abili es
We need to

retain resources  Variety of student schedules due to educa onal needs

and improve  Lack of age-appropriate materials/content to meet student

upon our needs

materials so we

can make our What makes life skills interven on so hard?

interven on It is the fact that we can rarely produce interven on

more impacYul materials that can be used again and again because each ac vity has

and move our to be individually modified for each student. The degree of severity

field forward. across students differs radically. And what about considering
augmenta ve communica on, hearing loss, low vision, and reduced
That is what this
mobility? Therein lies the dilemma.
book is designed

to do.

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