ID Support Toolkit: Functional Academics & Life Skills
Teaching a student with an intellectual disability is not about lowering expectations; it is about teaching important skills in a way that sticks. This 48-page guide gives teachers task-analysis based instruction, functional academics and life skills routines that build real independence.
What's Inside
- Instruction that works: task analysis, modeling and guided practice, repetition without boredom, errorless learning, and helping skills generalize
- Functional academics: functional reading, math, writing, and visual supports
- Communication supports for the classroom
- Life skills and behavior: life skills in the daily schedule, independence with routines, behavior as communication, de-escalation, and self-regulation
- Inclusion and collaboration: peer support without pity, parent partnership, and simple team meetings
- Toolkit: printables, data trackers, and real classroom scenarios
How It Helps You
- Breaks skills into teachable steps with task analysis and errorless learning
- Builds life skills into the daily schedule instead of treating them as extras
- Gives you data trackers to show progress toward independence
Ways to Use It
Use it to plan functional academics and life skills instruction, train paraprofessionals, and prepare for team meetings with families.
Who It's For
General education teachers, special education teachers, and paraprofessionals.
Format
Digital download, 48 pages. Instant download.
Need more than one?
If you support students across several disability areas, the other magazine-style guides cover each one in the same practical format. The Special Education Magazines Bundle includes this resource and more in one download, and you save 54% compared to buying each item separately.
