The Case Manager's Field Guide: Functional & Life Skills Settings — Free Preview

The Case Manager's Field Guide: Functional & Life Skills Settings — Free Preview

A complete sample from the full guide

This is a free preview of The Case Manager's Field Guide: Functional & Life Skills Settings — the edition built for the case manager in the life skills and functional classroom, where progress is measured in independence: prompt levels, task analysis, mastery, and generalization.

It's not a table of contents or a teaser. Inside this preview you get an entire step of the guide, complete and ready to use — the full first-contact-with-families sequence, with the scripts, the timelines, and the Illinois legal deadlines — plus a working sample of how the guide turns acquisition-and-mastery data into defensible decisions.

In the preview:

• The complete opening step of the eight-step system — usable in your building today
• A sample of the acquisition-and-mastery progress-monitoring logic — the dual-metric rule that separates real independence from prompted performance
• A look at the transition layer that survives a compliance review
• A full map of what the complete guide covers, step by step

If it's useful, the full guide carries all eight steps, the complete data-sheet suite — trial-by-trial, task-analytic, mastery, and generalization — present levels and goals across six domains, and the transition layer in full.

This guide is published in two editions: this one for the functional and life-skills classroom, and a resource edition for the co-taught and resource setting. If your caseload runs on grade-level goals, look for that edition instead — each is complete on its own.



Written by a practicing Illinois special education case manager and team lead with 20 years in the field, including running a self-contained Life Skills classroom — the room this edition was written from and for.