Life Skills Activities for Special Children

by Darlene Mannix

Book Overview

Gives grade 7-12 teachers over 180 step-by-step lessons with reproducible activity sheets to help special students develop and practice the basic "survival" skills they need for both school and daily living situations. Builds skills in these areas: interpersonal, communication, academic, practical living, vocational, lifestyle choices, and problem-solving.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876285477
• ISBN13: 9780876285473
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

My son loves this book

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.

Seems like it will be good

I bought this for my daughter who is a special needs teacher. She is thrilled and says the book looks easy to read and she can't wait to get into it. Just got it for her for Christmas this year, so she hasn't read it yet, but she has glanced at it and seems to like it real well.

Great resource for special education teachers

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.

Excellent book for teachers of students with disabilities!

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.