Daily living skills

Self-Care and Daily Life Skills include some of the most important occupations children learn as they grow. This blog will focus on ADLs and provide strategies to help a child sequence and execute personal hygiene tasks.

Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) are a key area of daily functioning and addressed through occupational therapy interventions.

Therapeutic worksheets focused on helping kids and teens discuss hygiene. Tools focus on teaching kids about proper hygiene and healthy habits.

Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism

Are you wondering what executive function milestones to look for in your children? We've mapped it out in our executive function skills by age post.

A list of student business ideas for special education students to practice independence, money math, cooking, responsibility, and so much more!

Self-Care and Daily Life Skills include some of the most important occupations children learn as they grow. This blog will focus on ADLs and provide strategies to help a child sequence and execute personal hygiene tasks.

My students all arrive at different times in the morning, which makes it very difficult to teach a class before their breakfast is served. For the past 2 year I have been having the students write a morning message, since it can be done in their own time as they arrive. It contains the date, the weather, what we plan to do that day and than a note on what we will be doing tomorrow. I am not sure how much my students are really gaining from this, so I have decided to put together morning…

It's surprises me every year how my whole classroom shifts on what they like and what they don't like to do. The last two years, not one student has touched the puzzles on my shelves. This year, it is like the hot ticket activity. I even had to buy a couple extra so there was enough to go around. I remember about three years ago my box of pattern blocks was what everyone wanted to play with. The last couple years no one seems to care for them at all. Last week a co-worker of mine bought a…