Independent Living Skills

Information within this book will enable you to plan, organise and deliver an independent living skills programme at home.

If you don’t do it, who will?

Why wait, begin exploring today and discover how to teach the skills we all need to live independently. You will cover,

• An introduction to independence
• Organising and delivering a programme
• Kitchen skills
• Safety
• Food preparation
• Starting out
• Cooking
• Meal times
• Laundry skills
• Ironing
• Cleaning the home
• Shopping
• Budgeting and handling money
• A suitable environment for learning
• Developing a programme
• Assessments
• Organising a skill’s development, setting targets and monitoring progress
• Delivering targets
• Teaching methods
• A plan: short and long term targets
• Independence, the individual and a word of caution