Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs

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Summary: Fabulous resource
Review: Excellent source of activities for use with LEP population. Good for counseling end educational activities.

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Summary: Great Resource!
Review: I am a speech therapist working with special needs kids in high school and junior high. This is a wonderful resource full of information I can use with all my kids. The book is clearly sectioned into activities and concepts which can go beyond classroom objectives and into real life situations. I really enjoyed activities geared towards the older population covering more sensitive subjects such as alcohol, suicide and sex. The special needs population needs more hands on information covering these topics and this book presented the material in a easy to understand and practical manner. I was also really impressed with the extension activities provided and short exercises given with every subject. What a timesaver!!

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Summary: Great Ideas!
Review: I have used this book to plan lessons for my secondary students who have severe cognitive disabilities. My main problem with the book is that it relies heavily on worksheets and activities that require the student to be able to read. Since my students do not read, these worksheets were not appropriate for me. I was able, however, to adapt and modify the ideas to meet my needs. As a reference tool for ideas, it is a great book.

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Summary: A very nice life-skills based book with some good academics.
Review: I truly enjoyed using this book with my students who have severe learning disabilities. The students seemed to learn quite a bit from the activities in the book, however they were not quite the self-guided follow-ups that I had hoped for. I would also hesitate if buying this book for students with more severe reading difficulties as they will be unable to comprehend most of the instructions used in the book.