Life Skills Speech and Language Enrichment Activities: English and Spanish Lesson Plans for Children with Significant Impairments

For those of us who have had the opportunity to work in a life skills classroom we know that it can be the most rewarding and most challenging experience.

However, serving children with severe impairments is almost always heavily weighted towards the challenging end of the spectrum.

But does it have to be?What makes life skills intervention so difficult?It is the fact that we can rarely produce therapy materials that can be used again and again because each activity has to be individually modified for each individual student.

The degree of severity across clients differs so radically due to augmentative communication, hearing loss, low vision, and reduced mobility.Let’’s change the way we do therapy.In this book you will find powerful therapy materials that can be re-employmed each year by maintaining the curriculum based theme and adapting the modifications and augmentative communication support.