Functional Life Skills - Personal Hygiene

Functional Life Skills - Personal Hygiene UNIT

Teaching life skills to children with special educational needs helps to give them knowledge and skills to handle daily tasks, become more independent and know how to take action when an adult is not around to help. The teaching of life skills should be thought of as a crucial part of the curriculum for children with special needs as it prepares them for day to day challenges and helps them become more productive members of their communities.

This Functional Life Skills - Personal Hygiene UNIT resource provides planning, teaching slides, vocabulary cards and data tracking sheets as well as a range of different activities perfect for use with a whole class, small group and some of them can be used as independent workstation activities.

This Functional Life Skills - Personal Hygiene UNIT was designed for students with special needs, however, it can be used for students in elementary grades as well. Select the activities and level of support that match each learner’s personal-hygiene goals.

This Functional Life Skills - Personal Hygiene UNIT covers personal hygiene, and teaches children about the importance of keeping a clean body, teeth and hair. It also teaches about the importance of keeping your teeth healthy, brushing twice a day and visiting the dentist.

Included in this Functional Life Skills - Personal Hygiene Unit are the following resources which can be used in sequence or as needed:

• · Ideas for planning

• · Teaching slides

• · Vocabulary cards

• · Data tracking sheets

• · Social story

• · Bingo game

• · Instruction cards with real photos

• · Labelling activities

• · Picture to picture matching

• · Word to picture matching

• · Differentiated scenario question and answer

• · Sequencing activities

• · Sorting activities

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