Life Skills Checklist for Special Needs Teens and Young Adults
This is a list we started working on for all of our kids to set goals for attempting to learn these life skills. Of course each individual living with special needs has different capacities and levels of comprehension. Our special needs son will need help in many areas to achieve this, so in some ways it's a list for us now - caregivers in the future.
Maintain relationships - faith in God, home, church, family, friends, co-workers, community
Maintain good hygiene
Sexual health
Caring for clothes - what you wear (washing, drying, ironing, storing, organizing)
Using technology for communication (smartphone, email, tablets, desktops)
Tie a necktie
Self protection (call for help, hand-to-hand, weapon safety)
Vaccinations
House cleaning, maintenance and organization
House emergency prep
Kitchen use
Technology maintainence
Car maintainence
Auto emergency prep
Personal finance management (accounts, investing, saving, taxes, budgeting, credit score, protection)
Personal insurances
Personal document management (certificates, passport, records, social security)
Career and Work (interviews, job search)
Life...