Independent Living Skills: Travel Training & Safety for Transition to Adulthood
This 51-page guide walks transition-age students through the skills they need for life after high school: cooking, safety, riding the bus, asking for help and setting goals.
What's Inside
- Independent Living Skills: cooking, cleaning, laundry, budgeting and personal hygiene
- Safety at Home and in the Community
- Travel Training: public transportation, reading signs and asking for help
- Communication and Self-Advocacy
- Problem-Solving and Handling Emergencies
- Setting Goals for Independence
- Built-in tools: checklists, real-life scenarios, a phrase bank for asking for help and a fill-in SMART goals template
It is written directly to the student in warm, plain language, with sensory-friendly tips and autism-specific guidance such as using an info card with first responders.
How It Helps You
- Maps onto common transition and IEP goal areas
- Editable Word file lets you adjust reading level and add local bus routes
- Checklists are built in, so no separate worksheets are needed
Ways to Use It
Read it independently or aloud as a class in self-contained, resource or life skills classrooms, pull pages as standalone practice, or send it home for families to reinforce.
Format
DOCX (editable) and PDF (print-ready). 51 pages, 6 units. Instant download.
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