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Life Skills Activities for Special Children

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This book has been a really great way to teach my students academics with a focus on life-skills that they need to know. It also lets me adapt activities like filling out forms for my students who need more practice, or give homework that the students can do on their own. I've used the book with students who have moderate intellectual limitations at the elementary and middle school level, and I'm still using it with my students who have borderline mild limitations and/or severe learning disabilities at the 7th grade level. My only gripe about the book is that it is very hard to make copies of the worksheets because of the way the book is bound.

It's a book for a kid that doesn't have a lot of abilities, help to understand and learn about the basic skills for interaction. It doesn't matter the age, can be 5 or 20 years old. It helps with the essential social skills, like basic information (name, address, telephone skills, money, time), stress management, personal independence (clothing, room, food and eating, community independence and getting along with others.
It's a book with drawing that assistance to those kids that can not easily understand abstract thinking.

This book is excellent! I am a special education teacher and I've use it throughout the school year. My students enjoy the worksheets and activities. My only complaint is that I wish the author would write a more updated version.

This book is a great tool for moms of kids with PPD-NOS like myself - kids who know what to do but can't always carry out the proper moves when faced with the great chess game of social interactions. My son doesn't always want to do the activity sheets in the book but once we get started, he really gets into it and one night even cleaned my entire room after a question was posed on one of the work sheets and he couldn't think of an answer: what do you think your mom would like for a birthday present?
Well that night, he ended up having the opposite problem. He didn't "know" the answer when faced with it on the page but instinctively "felt" what would please me, which is what he faces in school a lot. This book has activities that help creat bridges between what we think and feel and how we act and shows that sometimes there is no right answer but there may be an action that turns out to be a simple act of kindness. And that's never a bad thing.

I teach the Life-Skills program at one of our areas middle schools, grades 6-8. The students I teach are generally mildly Mentally Retarded and are functioning on a K-1st grade level and most are non-readers. This book and it's sister book by Ms. Mannix, Social Skills Activities for Special Children (J-B Teacher) are great resources. They can be used as wonderful, interesting workbooks with children who are able to read on a limited basis, or they can easily be adapted for the non-reader which is what I do. Each unit begins with a letter that can be sent home to the parents explaining what the unit is about and some even have suggestions for ways the parent or guardian can reinforce the skills at home. Each unit also has a chart for tracking the individual's progress of each unit. The format is easy to understand and each activity or mini-lesson is individually laid out in Lesson plan form with an objective, opening activity, suggested discussion questions, a follow-up activity and a worksheet activity that can be used as is or with a little advance planning can be adapted to be used as a cut and paste activity which is what I do with my non-readers. My only suggestion for improvement would be to have the adapted pages included so that the teacher has them readily available for the non-reader as well as the reading student in her class.

This is another good resource for therapy. It can be modified for all levels.

Have already started using in my class. Seller was very true to description and shipping.

This book is a great resource for the novice and experienced special education instructor. It gives easy to use lessons for teaching children,teens and young adults in the classroom and community settings.

Please read this. These kids get lost because schools don't know to look for this. Compare this to your childs report. Good luck to all of you!

Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities : Lost Treasures

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D.

This book is for use in classrooms, teachers and/or counselors, but the way it is written and put together, it is just as effective for use at home too. It has been helpful in our home. Some of the sections would take real creativity for use at home, but, all-in-all, I love the book and would recommend it.