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FREE YOURSELF FROM THE
CHANGE THE
WAY YOU DO CHALLENGES OF THE LIFE SKILLS

THERAPY

CLASSROOM

We make For those of us who have had the opportunity to

powerful work in a life skills classroom, we know that it can be the
most rewarding and most challenging experience. The
interven on
problem is that this situa on is almost always heavily
materials that weighted toward the challenging end of the spectrum. But

get be6er each does it have to be?

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

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

We need to  Variety of communica on abili es

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

That is what this augmenta ve communica on, hearing loss, low vision, and reduced

book is designed mobility? Therein lies the dilemma.

to do.

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