Life Skills

100 Activities for Transition
$29.95, Softcover

What is transition? How do we make sure it happens? This manual comes from 4 years of experimenting with how best to help high school students transition to adulthood.

Asperger's On The Job
$27.95, Paperback

Up to 85% of the Asperger's population are without full-time employment, though many have above-average intelligence.

The Autism Transition Guide
$29.95, Paperback

This resource for professionals and families provides ideas and strategies to prepare a broad range of individuals on the autism spectrum for life beyond high school.

Becoming Independent
$39.95, Softcover

This photocopiable resource is aimed at senior students with lower abilities who are seeking to develop and rehearse the skills necessary to live independently.

Build Your Own Life
$29.95, Paperback

Essential reading for all those on the higher-functioning end of the autism spectrum, helping them to get the best out of a world that is often confusing and aiding those close to them to understand their perspective.

Building Essential Language Life Skills from A-Z (BELLS)
$59.95, Spiral Bound

Here is a book that provides opportunities for realistic oral language practice in a variety of home and community situations. The book includes 312 activities for role-playing and/or discussion.

Career Training and Personal Planning for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
$49.95, Softcover

This practical training program for teachers and carers assesses ASD students’ strengths and abilities, fears and challenges and helps them acquire the skills necessary for a smooth transition from school to employment.

Caring for Myself
$24.95, Paperback

This is an entertaining and educational social/life skills storybook that will help children with ASDs to understand the importance of taking care of their bodies.

Day-to-Day Life Skills Reading
$59.95, Spiral Bound

Help students with language and learning disabilities develop reading skills necessary to function effectively in a variety of daily life situations.

Day-to-Day Life Skills Series (3 books)
Set

Get all three books in the comprehensive Day-to-Day Life Skills Series. The activities build reading, writing, and speaking skills using topics that focus on daily living skills.

Day-to-Day Life Skills Speaking
$59.95, Spiral Bound

Develop vocabulary and language skills relating to a variety of daily life activities.

Day-to-Day Life Skills Writing
$59.95, Spiral Bound

The activities in this book help students develop the writing skills necessary to communicate basic information in a variety of situations.

Developing Talents
$34.95, Paperback

This updated and expanded edition considers the continuing dismal employment statistics for individuals with ASD and makes concrete suggestions for career paths.

Different... Not Less
$27.95, Paperback

Temple Grandin offers the world yet another great work, an inspiring and informative book that offers both hope and encouragement.

The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook
$33.50, Softcover

A veteran parent and expert on transitioning advises families on how to prepare their child with Down syndrome for independent adult life. Whether your child is in high school or an older adult still at home, this handbook outlines what to consider.

Functional Sequencing Activity Sheets
$52.95, Spiral Bound (inc CD)

Put it in order! Functional Sequencing uses six-step sequences to teach students how to do over 40 daily living activities. Sequences range from basic to complex in eight categories.

Guiding Your Teenager with Special Needs Through the Transition from School to Adult Life
$29.95, Paperback

This book provides practical advice and valuable information to help families prepare themselves and their teenager for that transition, allowing it to happen as smoothly and seamlessly as possible.

The Hidden Curriculum of Getting and Keeping a Job
$28.95, Paperback

This practical and easy-to-use book provides necessary yet often untaught information on a variety of topics related to getting a job and understanding the social rules at work.

How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger's
$28.95, Paperback

Co-author of the groundbreaking book Asperger's and Girls, Jennifer McIlwee Myers' personal experience with Asperger's Syndrome and having a brother with autism makes her perspective doubly insightful.

Implementing Ongoing Transition Plans for the IEP
$97.70, Softcover (inc CD)

In this book, McPartland responds to the very real problems of post education integration for those with special needs by diagramming a new approach to the assessment and instruction of students in an ongoing life skill and transition program.

Incentives for Change
$27.95, Paperback

This easy-to-follow guide explains a variety of motivational methods and systems for teaching a wide variety of social skills, such as interacting playfully with others and making eye contact, and life skills such as getting dressed and doing chores.

Job-related Social Skills
$114.95, Softcover

Teach your older students the skills they MUST learn for job success. This comprehensive curriculum manual provides you with step-by-step instructional procedures and activities for training social skills needed for all jobs.

The Kitchen Classroom
$42.95, Paperback (inc CD)

Unique cookbook shows parents how to teach their children with disabilities cooking skills as they practice important motor, communication & sensory skills.

Language for Living
$87.95, Spiral Bound (inc CD)

This unique collection of 180 enjoyable group activities aims to foster both the skills underlying communication, such as body language and awareness of others, and aspects of spoken language itself.

Life Skills Activities For Secondary Students with Special Needs, 2ed
$37.95, Softcover

A unique collection of 190 illustrated activity sheets with related exercises, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions to help students acquire the basic skills necessary to achieve independence and success in everyday living.

Life Skills Activities For Special Children, 2ed
$37.95, Softcover

Over 180 step-by-step lessons with reproducibles to help special students develop and practice the basic "survival" skills they need for school and daily living situations.

Managing My Money
$49.95, Softcover (inc CD)

Help teens and adults with intellectual disabilities become more independent by teaching them money management skills. The easy-to-follow workbook format provides banking and budgeting instruction and practice opportunities.

Nutrition Curriculum Activities Kit
$45.55 Our Price - $19.95, Softcover

Provides 20 ready to use teaching units to review basic nutrition concepts and involve students in applying their skills and knowledge to more advanced lessons in diet planning, special diets, meal planning and preparation and nutrition issues.

The Power to Spring Up
$36.95 Our Price - $29.95, Paperback

This guide to postsecondary options helps families of teens and young adults with significant disabilities prepare for the future.

Preparing for Life
$49.95, Softcover

This easy-to-follow resource provides a complete toolbox of skills and the means to attain them so students may approach their futures with excitement rather than anxiety.

Promoting Self-Determination in Students with Developmental Disabilities
$29.95, Softcover

Reviews the breadth of available methods for teaching components of self-determination and provides best-practice recommendations that teachers can put to immediate use in the classroom.

Self-Help Skills for People with Autism
$36.50, Softcover

This book thoroughly describes a systematic approach that parents and educators can use to teach basic self-care (eating, dressing, toileting, personal hygiene) to children, ages 24 months to early teens, and even older individuals.

Social Thinking at Work
$31.50, Paperback

After reading this book, you will never think about making small talk or presenting your ideas in a meeting the same way again.

Steps To Independence
$49.95, Softcover

A hands on resources that's already helped thousands of other parents, this book gives you proven strategies for teaching the life skills children from age 3 through young adulthood need to live as independently as possible.

Taking Care of Myself
$44.95, Softcover

Covers all those issues that many parents have difficulty explaining to their children. It is a must-read for those who love and guide students with disabilities.

Together we Cook n Learn Book 1
Spiral Bound

Photo cook book by Sue Larkey.

Toilet Training For Individuals With Autism & Related Disorders, 2ed
$29.50, Softcover

An excellent guide through the special difficulties encountered when toilet training an individual with autism. This book offers over 200 toilet training tips, 50 case examples from which you can learn, and 40 "cautions."

Transition Behavior Scale IEP and Intervention Manual
$69.95, Softcover

The TBIM provides goals and objectives to help prepare IEPS and lists of inteventions which have been found to increase the likelihood of succes in employment and independent living.

Transition Issues for young adolescents
$37.95, Softcover

Transition issues provides teachers with a resource to use with students to demonstrate that, while we all have difficult times, there are strategies which can be used to help us through them.

Unlocking Potential
$39.95 Our Price - $19.95, Softcover

This text is a comprehensive guide to post-secondary school options for young people with learning difficulties (LD) and AD/HD. The book focuses mainly on college, but also concerns apprenticeship, remedial life skills programmes and employment.

Vocabulary Builders for Adolescents with Special Needs
$58.50, Spiral Bound

Use this book to teach vocabulary to adolescents with vocabulary deficits. The activities build vocabulary, verbal reasoning, and critical thinking skills relevant to the academic curriculum and the daily living needs of students.

Vocabulary Builders for Daily Living
$52.95, Spiral Bound

Ages 10 through adult. Help students with language learning disabilities acquire the survival vocabulary that they need to function in a variety of situations.

Vocabulary of Community And Living (VOCAL)
$75.00, Spiral Bound

Help students expand vocabulary knowledge, comprehension, and verbal association skills using the activities in this book.

Vocational & Transition Services for Adolescents with Emotional & Behavioral Disorders
$64.00, Softcover

This book presents a comprehensive blueprint for establishing and conducting a successful community-based vocational and transition program for adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders.

Vocational Entry Skills For Secondary and Adult Students With Learning Disabilities
$27.50 Our Price - $19.95, Softcover

Teachers guide in the updated and expanded edition of this excellent course on how to get a job and hold it, new teaching units and worksheets address modern changes in the workplace.

W.A.G.E.S. Working at Gaining Employment Skills
$95.95, Spiral Bound

Teach students important social skills that will help them gain and maintain employment. The course content is based on the “Scans Report,” previous research on workplace social skills, and data gathered by the authors.