Looking for fun and functional ways to work with your life skills students? Here is a recap from my webinar!
Did you catch the FUNctional Autism Awareness webinar series?! Don't know what I am talking about?! Click HERE to sign up and view replays for the month of April!
In my presentation, I mentioned some TpT products, apps, and resources I think you should check out. I compiled a list here so you can easily find what you want to learn more about!
Sample goals:
- Student will exhibit the pragmatic skills of active listening, commenting, asking questions, and appropriately entering and exiting conversations.
- Given modeling and scripts, student will use language to express frustration, problems, and disagreements.
- Student will infer the feelings and ideas of others during role-play activities
- Student will demonstrate the ability to plan and follow through with social pragmatic language tasks.
Themes Mentioned:
Restaurant, library, post office, grocery store, movies, ice cream shop, mall, and more!
Language skills that can be addressed:
Categorization, association, describing, exclusion, absurdities, answering questions, sequencing, sentence structure, syntax, following directions, listening comprehension, inferencing, problem solving, and more!
Social skills that can be addressed:
Turn taking, topic maintenance, topic initiation, conversational turn taking, manners, communication breakdown/repair, perspective taking, understanding emotion/body language, and so much more!
Use What you have:
Tissue box, brown paper bags, Popsicle sticks, index cards, take out menus, file folders, grocery store circulars, internet, you tube, and more!
Apps mentioned:
You Tube Videos:
My blog post using commercials to work on inferencing – Click HERE!
Pen Pal Letter Writing Website:
TpT Product mentions:
No Prep Social Skills for Older Students
No Prep Social Skills for Entire Year
Going To A Grocery Store Language and Pragmatic Skill Pack
Going To A Post Office Language and Pragmatic Skill Pack
Going to a Library Language and Pragmatic Skill Pack
Going to a Restaurant Language and Pragmatic Skill Pack
Freebie Mentioned?!
Want the freebie mentioned in my webinar?! This freebie is great for working on vocabulary of the community scenes. You can also work on exclusion, answering WH questions, expanded sentences, prepositions, and so much more! Did I mention it is no prep and free?! Click the button below to grab it! (If the button does not work, try using a Chrome browser!).
