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Can we increase eﬃciency and

eﬀec veness in life skills interven on?

The answer lies in the lesson planning itself. Materials

may not work with all of your students and deﬁnitely not with all
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of the students you will have next year. Genera ng speciﬁc
interven on ac vi es is eﬀec ve in the general educa on seCng important,

but with regards to life skills, we just need to set this idea down.
but o en
What we can do is 1) create generalized therapy materials
around an academic topic and 2) create a spectrum of ways to forgo en

modify each ac vity.
element of all

What should we focus on? lesson plans

should be the

We are awash in informa on on goals, curriculum-based ques on, 'Am

interven on, and inclusion. We make powerful materials that
I excited
we re-employ each year and that only get be6er as we add to

them. It would be a waste of me if we could never use them about this?'"

again. We need to collec vely make a pact to retain resources
and improve upon our interven on so that our professions can
move forward. That is what this book is designed to do.

- Dave Guymon

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