From the Back Cover
For all Educators of special learners, here are 145 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible line master worksheets that help children acquire the basic skills necessary to achieve independence and success in everyday living.
Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations. It gives special children the extra focus they need to understand how to fit into the real world and how to develop the skills needed to become more independent in their homes, at schools, and in the community.
Conveniently organized into four sections and subdivided into 20 specific areas of development, this resource gives you sources of carefully paced, fun-to-do activities covering:
- Basic Survival Skills: The 49 activities in this section help special children learn at their own pace the skills they need to communicate basic information to others, use a telephone, handle money, tell time, read and understand signs, and cope with everyday stress.
- Personal Independence: These 37 challenging activities help special children gain the skills they need to take care of themselves, including shopping, dressing appropriately, developing a healthy lifestyle, and maintaining good personal hygiene.
- Community Independence: The 32 activities in this section teach the special child how to get around the community safely, read and understand schedules, and behave properly in public.
- Getting Along With Others: This final section contains 27 activities that help students develop the social skills they need to interact with the people around them, including learning how to cooperate with others, understand different points of view, and demonstrate good manners in a variety of situations.
And for easy and effective use, each area of development comes with a reproducible Letter to Parents, informing them what their children are learning and a ready-to-be-filled-in progress report. Each activity gives you step-by-step directions, teaching suggestions, learning objectives, and answer keys.
About the Author
Darlene Mannix has taught and helped emotionally disturbed learning disabled, mentally handicapped, at-risk, and language disordered children of all grades and ages. Currently she is teaching a public program for middle school students utilizing computers to teach thinking skills.
Ms. Mannix holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Taylor University and a Master's degree in Learning Disabilities from Indiana University. She has also authored Oral Language Activities for Special Children and Be a Better Student, both published by The Center for Applied Research in Education.
