Adulting skills workbooks for young people with special needs by award winning Author/Educator Susan Traugh. The budget friendly Daily Living Skills series has been heralded by teachers, parents and educators as the most effective transitional curriculum materials available.
Adulting skills workbooks for young people with special needs by award winning Author/Educator Susan Traugh. The budget friendly Daily Living Skills series has been heralded by teachers, parents and educators as the most effective transitional curriculum materials available.
Here is the entire collection of Cleaning House materials:
1. Standard Workbook
2. Interactive Workbook
3. Cleaning the Living Spaces video
4. Cleaning the Kitchen video
5. Cleaning the Bathroom video
6. Cleaning the Bedroom video
7. Changing the Sheets video
Time Management is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. Written on a high third/low fourth grade level with airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence and life skills. Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills–Time Management include: Current skills assessment, skills diagnosis, goal setting–short-term and long-term, organization, daily chores calendar, how to schedule, keeping a planner, prioritizing, procrastinator’s tip sheet and managing interruptions. Also included are Parent Verification Letters, answer key and grading sheet.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Daily Living Skills–Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Who Am I? (Career and College Aptitude), Cleaning House, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Kitchen Basics, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping, Making Meals, Paying Bills, Staying Healthy, Time Management and Transportation
Practicing Self-Advocacy is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills and life skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. Practicing Self-Advocacy provides adult living skills for special needs teens to meet transition mandates. It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to understand what self-advocacy is, and how to advocate for themselves in school and the workplace alike. These workbooks serve as both a traditional print version and an interactive version - using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Like the other books in this series, it contains airy pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills and transition skills needed for adult independence.
Written on about the fifth-grade level*, workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills’ Practicing Self Advocacy include:
What is Self-Advocacy?
Why Care about Self-Advocacy?
Using Honey vs. Vinegar
ADA vs. IDEA
Elements of Self-Advocacy
Knowing Yourself
Knowing Your Needs
Knowing How to Get What You Need
Disclosing Your Disability
Requesting Accommodations
Document Disabilities
Reasonable Accommodations
Undue Hardship
Accommodations at School/Workplace
How to Ask for Accommodations
Practice Sessions to Learn How to Ask
Additionally, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key and a Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance with federal mandates for parent involvement.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book, Doing Laundry.
*Due to legal language, this book’s vocabulary scores higher than most books in the series. However, every “big” word is defined and/or illustrated to keep comprehension levels accessible.
Staying Healthy is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering life skills and transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. These workbooks serve as both a traditional print version and an interactive version - using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Written on a high third/low fourth grade level with airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition skills and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills–Staying Healthy include:
What is “Healthy”?
The Cost of Bad Habits
Checking Up on Me
A Word on Vaccinations
Home Medicine
Using a Website
The Medicine Cabinet
Home Health First Aid
R.I.C.E.
Special Diets
Health Insurance
My Medical Team
When is it Serious
Stress
All in my Head
Resources for Mental Health
Safe Sex
Volunteering
Also included are Parent Verification Letters, answer key and grading sheet.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.
Other titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Nutrition, Hygiene for Girls, Hygiene for Guys, Safe Dating, and Managing Stress.
A Teacher’s Manual (sold separately) provides tips on organizing and setting-up a transition program, pre- and post-test assessments, class grading sheets, written ITP goals for each workbook to plug into annual IEP’s, and code numbers and definitions for federal transition standards for each book.
A Powerpoint presentation is available free on this site to introduce your class/parents/administrators to the program.
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Who Am I? Career and College is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering life skills and transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike to explore career aptitude. This workbook serves as both a traditional print version and an interactive version using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The component workbook is written on a high third/low fourth-grade level with airy pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence. Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills - Who Am I? Career and College include: What life skills do I have/need questionnaire, Jung Briggs-Myers Typology test, what’s my learning modality and how to enhance my style, preferred learning environments, analyzing my strengths and weakness, obstacles in my path and overcoming them, creating a mentor group, creating a support system, Internet support, creating an action plan, career aptitude test and analysis, short term goal setting, and long term goal setting. Also included are Parent Verification Letters, answer key and grading sheet.
A preview of this book is provided with the workbook sale site, or sample the series with our free book, Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Who Am I?, Cleaning House, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Kitchen Basics, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping, Making Meals, Paying Bills, Staying Healthy, Time Management and Transportation.
Overcoming Failure is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering life skills and transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. This workbook serves as both a traditional print version and an interactive version using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Like the other books in this series, it contains airy pages and bullet-point information written on a 3/4 grade level for easy independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teen maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Series’ Overcoming Failure include:
Definition of failure
The five major reasons people fail (We give up, We’re afraid, We make excuses, We don’t learn from our mistakes, We’re unprepared)
Three lessons failure can teach us (perseverance, learn, change)
The five steps to turn failure into success (Accept it, Look inside, Look outside, Adjust your attitude, and Grow success)
Failure stories of famous people and how they used their failures to succeed.)
In addition, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key and Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance to federal mandates.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Building Character, Cleaning House, Decision Making, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Employment Skills, Everyday Manners, Fair Fighting, Getting a Paycheck, Grocery Shopping, Interviewing Skills, Kitchen Basics, Making Conversation, Making Meals, Managing Stress, Nutrition, Paying Bills, Safe Dating, Staying Healthy, Time Management, Transportation, Voting, Who Am I? College and Career
A Power Point Presentation introducing the program to students, parents and staff is available free of charge on this site.
A Teacher’s Manual providing tips on implementation and written ITP goals for each workbook is also available for purchase on this site.
Kitchen Basics is part of Susan Traugh’s 12-volume Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. Written on a high third/low fourth grade level with airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence. Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Kitchen Basics include: Accident prevention, knife and fire safety, fire extinguishers, cookware terms, bakeware terms, tool terms, cleanliness, kitchen organization, common cooking terms, measuring, and abbreviations. Also included are Parent Verification Letters, answer key and grading sheet.
Kitchen Basics, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping and Making Meals make an excellent cooking unit.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Who Am I?, Cleaning House, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Kitchen Basics, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping, Making Meals, Paying Bills, Staying Healthy, Time Management and Transportation.
Using the Telephone is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills and life skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to understand how to use the telephone. This workbook serves as both a traditional print version and an interactive version using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Like the other books in this series, it contains airy pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition skills and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.
Written on a 3rd/4th-grade level, workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills’ Using the Telephone include:
Telephone manners
How to answer the phone
Leaving a message
Talking to a receptionist
Calling for take-out
Ordering a pizza
Making a reservation
Making a doctor’s appointment
Renewing a prescription
Ordering a service (car repair, haircut)
Dialing 211, 311, 411, 511, 611, 711, 811
How and when to use 911
Understanding reverse 911
Responding to Amber Alerts
Additionally, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key and a Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance with federal mandates.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book, Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Becoming Likable, Becoming Self-Aware, Building Character, Building Self-Esteem, Building Self-Motivation, Buying Insurance, Celebrating Holidays, Cleaning House, Creating Self-Confidence, Decision Making, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Everyday Manners, Fair Fighting, Getting a Paycheck, Grocery Shopping, Hygiene for Girls, Hygiene for Guys, Interviewing Skills, Kitchen Basics, Making Conversation, Making Meals, Managing Stress, Nutrition, Outdoor Chores, Overcoming Failure, Paying Bills, Practicing Patience, Safe Dating, Seeking Employment, Staying Healthy, Time Management, Transportation, Voting, Washing Dishes, Who Am I? College and Career, Work Games
Making Conversation is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering social skills and transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike needed for adult living. This workbook serves as both a traditional print version and an interactive version using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Written on a high third/low fourth-grade level with airy pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition skills and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Making Conversation include:
What is Conversation?
Keys to Conversation
How to Ask a Question
Interests Or, What to Talk About
Is it Appropriate?
Tone of Voice
Personal Space
Eye Contact
Body Language
Joining In
When People Say “No”
Levels of Conversational Intimacy
The Magic Words
Receiving a Compliment
Explaining my Disability
Formal Greeting
Ending a Conversation
Also included are Parent Verification Letters to meet federal mandates for family involvement, answer key, and grading sheet.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book Doing Laundry.
Some titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include:
Who Am I?-College and Career, Cleaning House, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Kitchen Basics, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping, Making Meals, Paying Bills, Staying Healthy, Time Management, Transportation, Everyday Manners, Fair Fighting and Stress Management and Making Conversation
A Teacher’s Manual (sold separately) provides tips on organizing and setting up a transition program, pre-and post-test assessments, class grading sheets, written ITP goals for each workbook to plug into annual IEP’s, and code numbers and definitions for federal transition standards for each book.
A Powerpoint presentation is available free on this site to introduce your class/parents/administrators to the program.
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The Social Skills Bundle is the bundle pack you’ve been asking for containing four Daily Living Skills units focusing on social skills and designed for mild-to-moderately affected special needs high school students, but appropriate for any young person wanting transition and independent living skills. This transition to adult life program provides in-depth lessons on the following social skills:
Everyday Manners
Making Conversation
Fair Fighting
Safe Dating
All units have a lesson/quiz format to constantly check for comprehension, a complete grading sheet, answer key, parent verification letters to document compliance with federal standards, and airy, third-grade reading level pages. All workbooks meet Indicator 13 requirements of the federal transition standards.
The Tables of Contents for each workbook are included in the “Preview” section of each individual book on this site. To preview the program format, tone, and reading level, download the free unit—Doing the Laundry—which is also available on this site.
Dress for Success is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. Written on a high third/low fourth grade level with airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition goals and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence. This workbook serves as both a traditional print version and an interactive version using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Dress for Success include:
Hygiene
Bathroom/closet organization
Morning routines
Creating an adult look
Talk about tats
Clothes shopping and budgeting
Interview etiquette
When to wash clothes
Also included are Parent Verification Letters to meet federal mandates for family involvement, answer key, and grading sheet.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.
Additional titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series that might enhance this topic include: Hygiene for Girls, Hygiene for Guys, Nutrition, Interviewing Skills, Time Management and Doing Laundry.
A Teacher’s Manual (sold separately) provides tips on organizing and setting-up a transition program, pre- and post-test assessments, class grading sheets, written ITP goals for each workbook to plug into annual IEP’s, and code numbers and definitions for federal transition standards for each book.
A Powerpoint presentation is available free on this site to introduce your class/parents/administrators to the program.
Follow me here and on Facebook at Transition 2 Life for tips and free lessons. You may receive credit from TpT for rating this product. If you rate the product lower, please describe the deficits you find so that I can upgrade the produce. Thanks!
Here’s a cost-saving way to create a cooking unit for your students.
Begin with KITCHEN BASICS—and teach about safety; cleanliness; cookware, bake-ware and tool vocabulary; measurement and kitchen organization. (Pgs. 41)
Add NUTRITION—and have students learn about food groups, a balanced diet, the food-in/energy-out equation, vitamins and minerals, and low-cost/high-nutrition foods. (Pgs. 42)
Then use GROCERY SHOPPING—to shop for the foods you learned about in Nutrition as students learn about grocery story layout, reading price tags, unit pricing, coupons, list-making, and food storage. (Pgs. 40)
Put it all together with MAKING MEALS—this video-modeled “cook-book” uses the low-cost/high-nutrition foods from Nutrition to create easy one-pan meals and then helps students create their own variations of the recipes in step-by-step lessons that empower students to cook and bake. Download all the videos for free off this website and you’ll have a comprehensive, dynamic unit plan for your students. (Pgs. 43)
Videos in this series are: Making Oatmeal, Microwave Hot Dogs, Microwave Mac ‘N Cheese, Making Microwave Burritos, Microwave Popcorn, One-Pan Pasta, One-Pot Soup, and One-Pan Cake.
Like all Daily Living Skills workbooks, this series is written on a high third/low fourth grade level and targeted to the mild-to-moderate population (although, you’ll see in the ratings, many teachers of students with moderate-to-severe disabilities have used the program successfully.) All vocabulary is defined immediately in context so students build confidence in the information. Pages are light and airy with lots of bullet-points and pictures, and are set with a tone that is friendly, yet respects the sensibilities of this age group. Every book contains an answer key and Parent Letter explaining what transition skills you are addressing along with suggestions for parent follow-up at home in compliance with federal mandates.
Lessons can easily be used in a “buy today/use today” fashion with no training and little preparation (except “Making Meals.”) Or, if you are a newer teacher or new to special education, the DAILY LIVING SKILLS TEACHERS MANUAL gives information on classroom organization and program set-up along with Indicator 13 support and a variety of written ITP goals for each workbook. (You do not need to buy the Teacher’s Manual—it is offered at the request of some teachers.)
If you are unfamiliar with this series, download the free workbook, “Doing Laundry” (on this site) to get a feel for the format and tone of this series, or preview the pages of the individual titles which are also offered on this site. Good luck!
Coping with COVID and Distance Learning provides instruction in adult living skills and transitional skills for both mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike and provides adult living skills for special needs teens to meet federal transition mandates. It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to live independently by being able to create a balanced daily schedule in this time of crisis.
With teachers moving to distance teaching and communities on lockdown, Coping with COVID and Distance Learning from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills is the tool you need to help students organize their lives while confined to their homes. This version of the book has clip-art that is a little more literal for students who may need that support.
Like the other books in this series, it contains airy pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated Indicator 13 skills and transition skills needed for adult independence. Carefully researched information on the virus and behavior during lockdown are provided in a calm, reassuring manner.
Written on about the 3rd/4th-grade level, workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills’ Sheltering in Place include:
What is COVID-19?
What is social distancing?
Why shelter in place?
Flattening the curve
Keeping the numbers in perspective
Stopping the spread
Hands–wash them
Elbows–cough into them
Face–don’t touch it
Space–keep your distance
Home–stay there if you can
What are essential workers/services?
Myth busters
What to expect when you SIP
Building a daily schedule
Making regular meals
Creating work time, exercise time, personal time
De-stressing and devotional time, sleep time
Slipping in household chores
Keeping a gratitude journal
What to do when worry takes over
Resources
Additionally, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key, and a Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance with federal mandates for parent involvement.
In the spirit of us all helping each other, this book is offered free of charge. Please help spread this offering by distributing it to your friends and colleagues.
Managing Stress is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering life skills and transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike needed for adult living. These workbooks serve as both a traditional print version and an interactive version - using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Written on a high third/low fourth-grade level with airy pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition skills and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills–Managing Stress include:
What is Stress?
Good Stress/Bad Stress
Symptoms of Stress
50 Ways to De-Stress
How to Handle Stress
Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Exercise Zaps Stress
Relaxation Techniques
Cognitive Distortions
Containing Worry
Connecting
Resources
When to Get Help
Also included are Parent Verification Letters, answer key and grading sheet.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book Doing Laundry.
Some titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include:
Who Am I?, Cleaning House, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Kitchen Basics, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping, Making Meals, Paying Bills, Staying Healthy, Time Management, Transportation, Everyday Manners, Fair Fighting and Stress Management
A Teacher’s Manual (sold separately) provides tips on organizing and setting up a transition program, pre-and post-test assessments, class grading sheets, written ITP goals for each workbook to plug into annual IEP’s, and code numbers and definitions for federal transition standards for each book.
A Powerpoint presentation is available free on this site to introduce your class/parents/administrators to the program.
Follow me here and on Facebook at Transition 2 Life for tips and free lessons. You may receive credit from TpT for rating this product. If you rate the product lower, please describe the deficits you find so that I can upgrade the product. Thanks!
Independence Basics from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills workbooks to help students understand a variety of basic life skills needed to live an independent life in adulthood including how to Google, how to create a signature, what to carry when you leave the house, how to find your way home, location sharing, and dealing with strangers and dangerous situations. These workbooks serve as both a traditional print version and an interactive version - using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Independence Basics provides instruction in adult living skills and transitional skills for both mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike and provides adult living skills for special needs teens to meet federal transition mandates, Indicator 13 requirements, and SCAN recommendations.
It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to live independently by providing them the background and knowledge to understand how to access community resources but can be further enhanced as a 5-book unit (with other books available soon) including Community Resources, Using the Library, Recreation Opportunities, and for teachers, Planning Field Trips.
Like the other books in this series, Independence Basics contains airy pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated Indicator 13 skills and transition skills needed for adult independence. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible. Lessons in Daily Living Skills Independence Basics include:
What are Independence Basics?
How to Google
Don’t Leave Home Without It (These)
Your Personal Signature
Where You Live
Finding My Place in the World
Getting Home
Staying in Touch–Informing before You Leave
Buddy Systems
Emergency Numbers You Should Have
Disability ID Cards
Emergency SOS
Understanding Your Challenges–Reading an IEP
Adult-ing–Keeping Organized
Tracking Apps
Safe Location Sharing
Stranger Danger
Kinds of Lures
When Danger Isn’t a Stranger
Listen to Your Gut
Three Steps to Stay Safe
Safe Words
Decision Making is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike.
Like all books in the series, Decision Making contains airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Decision Making include: What is a Decision? Why Plan? 8 Steps to Decide (Know your purpose; Gather facts; Determine standards; Brainstorm; Evaluate; Choose Best Choice; Review) Avoiding Bias; The Teen Brain; Judgment calls; and Group Decisions. Additionally, this books provides a student grading sheet, answer key and Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance to federal mandates.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Building Character, Cleaning House, Decision Making, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Everyday Manners, Fair Fighting, Getting a Paycheck, Grocery Shopping, Kitchen Basics, Making Conversation, Making Meals, Managing Stress, Nutrition, Paying Bills, Safe Dating, Staying Healthy, Time Management, Transportation, Voting, Who Am I? College and Career
Both Making Meals and Cleaning House have accompanying video modeling provided free on this site or on You-Tube.
A Power Point Presentation introducing the program to students, parents and staff is available free of charge on this site.
A Teacher’s Manual providing tips on implementation and written ITP goals for each workbook is also available for purchase on this site.
Hygiene for Girls is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to understand the reason for and steps necessary for staying clean and healthy.
Like the other books in this series, it contains airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence and U.S. Common Core Standard Compliant information.
Written on a 3rd/4th grade level, workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Hygiene for Girls include: What is hygiene, the Sanitary Seven, Why should I brush my teeth, How to floss, Washing my hair, Taking a shower, Clipping my nails, Applying deodorant, Stopping smelly feet, Wearing sunscreen, Wiping your bottom, How to wash your hands, Zapping zits, Washing your clothes, and girl stuff like Shaving, Feminine discharge, Pads and tampons, and removing make-up. Additionally, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key and a Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance with federal mandates.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Becoming Likeable, Becoming Self-Aware, Building Character, Building Self-Esteem, Building Self-Motivation, Buying Insurance, Celebrating Holidays, Cleaning House, Creating Self-Confidence, Decision Making, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Everyday Manners, Fair Fighting, Getting a Paycheck, Grocery Shopping, Interviewing Skills, Kitchen Basics, Making Conversation, Making Meals, Managing Stress, Nutrition, Outdoor Chores, Overcoming Failure, Paying Bills, Practicing Patience, Safe Dating, Seeking Employment, Staying Healthy, Time Management, Transportation, Voting, Washing Dishes, Who Am I? College and Career, Work Games
A Power Point Presentation introducing the program to students, parents, and staff is available free of charge on this site.
A Teacher’s Manual providing tips on implementation and written ITP goals for most of the workbooks is also available for purchase on this site.
Buying Insurance is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to understand the reason for and steps necessary to buy various kinds of insurance needed for adult living.
Like the other books in this series, it contains airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence and Common Core Standard Compliant information.
Written on a 3rd/4th grade level, workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills Buying Insurance include: what is insurance, how it works, insurance vocabulary, comparing plans, medical, dental and vision, life, renter’s and homeowner’s, what is my stuff worth, auto/liability/ comprehensive and collision, how to get the best rates and how to buy insurance. Additionally, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key and a Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance with federal mandates.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include: Becoming Likeable, Becoming Self-Aware, Building Character, Building Self-Esteem, Celebrating Holidays, Cleaning House, Decision Making, Doing Laundry, Dress for Success, Everyday Manners, Fair Fighting, Getting a Paycheck, Grocery Shopping, Interviewing Skills, Kitchen Basics, Making Conversation, Making Meals, Managing Stress, Nutrition, Overcoming Failure, Paying Bills, Practicing Patience, Safe Dating, Seeking Employment, Staying Healthy, Time Management, Transportation, Voting, Who Am I? College and Career, Work Games
A Power Point Presentation introducing the program to students, parents, and staff is available free of charge on this site.
A Teacher’s Manual providing tips on implementation and written ITP goals for most of the workbooks is also available for purchase on this site.
Nutrition is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. Written on a high third/low fourth grade level with airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence. Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills–Nutrition include: The food pyramid, serving size, food labels, value of vitamins, divide your plate, calorie counting, calculating your weight, nutrition tracker, exercising, free fitness, eat on the cheap, and daily meal planning. This new edition leaps from 41 pages to 67 and includes information on “ChooseMyPlate” meal planning, tracking and videos along with lessons on overcoming reluctance and insights on emotional eating. Also included are Parent Verification Letters, answer key and grading sheet.
Nutrition, Kitchen Basics, Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning make an excellent cooking unit.
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include:
Building Character
Cleaning House
Doing Laundry
Dress for Success
Everyday Manners
Fair Fighting
Getting a Paycheck
Grocery Shopping
Kitchen Basics
Making Conversation
Making Meals
Managing Stress
Nutrition
Paying Bills
Safe Dating
Staying Healthy
Time Managment
Transportation
Voting
Who Am I? College and Career
A Teacher’s Manual providing written ITP Goals and a class grading sheet along with program management tips is provided on this website.
A Power Point presentation for students, parents and/or administrators is provided here to outline and explain the program in a quick but comprehensive manner. The Power Point is free.
Videos for Making Meals and Cleaning house are also included for free on this website.
These engaging videos are part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills—Making Meals series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. The component workbook is written on a high third/low fourth grade level with airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting U.S. federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence. Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible. Videos are meant to be used in conjunction with the workbook. Videos for this book include:
Microwave Safety
Microwave Oatmeal
Microwave Popcorn
Microwave Mac N Cheese
Microwave Bean Burritos
Microwave Hot Dogs
One-Pan Pasta
One-Pot Soup
One-Pan Cake
Videos are moderately paced, step by step and “clutter-free” so that students can focus on the skills being presented. Comprehension worksheets for each video are provided in the workbooks.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills—Making Meals include: Recipes and comprehension-testing worksheets for all the recipes listed above. Additional recipes include Oven-Baked Chicken, Chicken and Rice, Sensational Salads, Lovely Lentils and Apple Crisp. All recipes use the “Cheap and Healthy Foods” discussed in the “Nutrition” book of the series. Finally, healthy alternatives to higher fat and sugar recipes are discussed. Also included are Parent Verification Letters, answer key and grading sheet.
Combined with “Kitchen Basics,” “Nutrition,” “Grocery Shopping,” and “Making Meals,” these workbooks and videos provide an intensive and comprehensive unit on cooking and health.
