Life Skills

A life of a severe learning disability child is dificult to manage but not impossible. Family members and friends of these kids struggle in their everyday life and a few give up. If the child does not have any support from the family as well as in the school setting, than the child will soon give up too. As they grow older in life they will approach several life skills that will help them to have close to a normal life.

Life skills include a wide range of knowledge and skill interactions believed to be essential for adult independent living (Brolin, 1989). At present, many students with handicaps have special needs that are not being met. These students require education and support to learn these necessary behaviors. They must be able to dress and groom properly, use appropriate table manners, make decisions about money, and use transportation to get to work. The three major skill areas that need to be addressed are daily living, personal/social, and occupational skills.

How to Teach Life Skills to Special Needs Teens

Important Skills for Special Needs Children

Little Angels.

Why do I refer to my students as little angels? The answer is easy, special needs kids have lots of good qualities that make you want to know more about them. They are respectful, loving, thoughtful, and very intelligent oh! and sneaky too. Yes, most of the times they live in their own little world but that does make them bad people and yet they're suffering from social ignorance and lack of trained experts.


Is very sad to know that well educated people think these kids are stupid and feel repulsive when they get near them. I see this almost every day at work. Regular teachers don't want their students to get mix up with the special needs students; they talk and make stupid faces. They think our students are bad influence. I think kids are kids and they do listen, if you know how to talk to them no matter with a disability or not.

Our students are always getting excluded from some school activities, while the rest of the school participates on every activity. Our special needs team has to be on top of everything, in order to have our students participating on some school activities. It’s obvious that we are surrounded by ignorant people. They don’t know what they're missing in life by not getting to know these kids; they are pure as an angel and more... Thank God the principal at our school is very understanding and we can always talk to her about issues with other colleagues.


Fight Ignorance Against People with Disabilities.

Ignorance Against Disabilities.

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A Change.

I remember my first day working in a school setting. My first assignment was in a regular education class with 29 kindergarten students. First thing that came into my mind when I saw the 29 little angels siting down and waiting for the class to be start was, "Nelly you better watch out because who knows what's going to happened today". The whole week was the longest week ever.

I was right, the very first day I had a student vomiting right next to me during class. It was not a very pleasant day. Second day I had two students pushing and saying mean things to each other. It took me a while to digest the experience of seeing two five year old little angels being so mean and disrespectful to one another. The rest of the week, I was running up and down like a crazy chicken with no head.

It took me about three weeks to get use to my new assignment, I finish the rest of the school year with the same class. I was happy working with kindergarten students. On the following year I decided to work with special needs students. During that year my life changed completely in a way that can't explain but I can say that to have the opportunity to work with Special Needs Students has been a gift from God.

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