Anybody Take a Life Skills Class?

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Anybody take a life skills class? In the near-future I'm going to have to take one, just wondering anybody here take one and whats it like

is that the life skills classes for people with disabilities?

My school required "life skills" classes in 6th grade, but we didn't learn anything useful. The class was just a bunch of lessons about being nice to people even though they are different, etc. The kids who really needed to learn these lessons didn't take it seriously. I wish they had taught us something practical, like how to write a resume, how to apply for a job, how to file taxes, etc. Why don't they teach those things in school?

Anyway, back on topic, what kind of life skills class is this?

off topic, they taught us how to file taxes and stuff like that.

is this class meant to help u find work or something?

Life skills class? What's that?

Apart of the Developmental devision disability thing, people with MR, Down syndrome, autism, any type of disorder that hinders us, well provide class called life skills class. Soon, i will probably take one, its suppose to teach you what to do and teach you how to handle stuff like taxes, and other stuff.

I learned tax preparation in Economics class. However I would highly suggest just buying TaxCut software because it can find deductions and get more money than you would normally get if you figure it on paper yourself unless you are a tax code genius of course.

I always considered cooking, personal finances and first aid to be the best life skills you could have.

in fact, im surprised they arent mandatory part of every school curriculum.

In the beggining of 2007 I took a life skills class. It was run for youth with disabilities. We learn't things like budgeting, cooking, listening skills, filling out forms, phone skills, assertiveness, team work skills, stress management, creating a resume & cover letter. There would have been more things but thats all I can remember.
There were 9 students attending the class. Amoung the staff there was a school teacher, social worker & occupational therapist who worked with the youth. There were a few office staff who I barely saw. Once a week we went out and did team building/confidence building things like obstacle courses, rock climbing and mountain biking.
At the end of the class there was a graduation lunch for the youth and their parents...thats if the parents wanted to come.
Oh yeah...and the class went for 8 weeks.

write a resume? They have books for that.

Apply for a job? It depends, but they have books on how to interview people. Many people that interview are idiots, and may ask questions DIRECT from the book! Get one, and try to use it to prepare.

Taxes? Get turbo tax.

As for teaching the things in school, they have changed, etc... Maybe it is best to do it another way, like I said.

Hey thanks so much, yea maybe its that. I'm so clueless when it comes to any of that, my boyfriend, brother and mother are talking about taxes, and im here going "how do u do taxes, can u explain how they work?" haha., my boyfriend was like "those are grown up things and laughed!" i was like wow. Anyways thanks brittany!

The closest thing they offered when I was in school was still called "Home Economics" and boys did NOT take that class. Not unless they wanted to be the tackle dummy for the football team, in an "unofficial" practice....

Come to think of it I did have a sort of Life Skills class... We called it gym, and they threw things at us. Then there was the life skills seminar... we called it "college-freshman year". Now THAT was fun!

In Poland there's nothing like that. There are not any extra classes you can take at school - there are simply subjects all students have to learn, all on the same level - history, geography, chemistry, maths, Polish, English or German (or another foreign language they teach in your school), biology and so on. I think that such subjects: knowledge of society and defensive training can be called the closest to things being described here by you all.

In high school I always liked defensive training course - btw, do you have something like that in your schools? You're taught what you should do in case of nuclear war (wrap yourself in a sheet and start crawling towards the closest graveyard - it's often added ), what are the types of gas masks, how to shoot and how to bandage a wound properly. Generally - everything that concerns civil defense.

Knowledge of society is about our legal system, the government, also elements of economy are introduced.

Life skills? Taught by whom....with what life? If this is a "how to make a phone call" "How to get a job" "How to navigate through a railroad station" I mean, Jeeeeze.

Do you need that? Age1600? You sure don't sound like you do. "But if it's how to get the best deal on gas or at a supermarket, without spending five hours looking through the whole stock or driving to Newark to get gas, then see if you can sneak me in. We don't live that far apart!


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Know the courses that mean!
Have took two of them before but only finished one,they come under the ASDAN board/certificate here and colleges get fussy if have already done one before,and if over 25 they won't even fund for one.
That one sounds like it's quite a high level life skills course,what other stuff does it have?
Might get to go on holidays and days out with the course as well,as they do with the ones am have been on.

Have college staff offered any accomodations yet?
if are likely to have meltdowns/self injuring etc in class,officially they can't/won't restrain,and will require own support for that.
Am had own support from home staff for this and general support,but also got the physical help off most teachers/support staff when needed to,this can differ depending on who it is.

the class should have the main teacher,and usually 1 or more support staff to help.

Accomodations they might offer [what am was given,not sure of others] -laptop [if unable to write,find writing difficult,visual processing difficulties etc],staff college pass to bypass sensory abusing corridors of the college,PECS for communicating, re-wrote all the work for am into way could understand [but ASDAN said they weren't allowed to do this for the exams so didn't get the certificate],made sure there was less talking and more doing,allowed am into the room at breaks,made sure am had same seat every time...
write out a list of things that would really help whilst at college.
Make sure to mention any problems,things needed,own support [if needed] etc. before the course starts.
Check out possible problems at the college such as the lights,the corridors,noise levels,the feel of any equipment thats' going to be used...although they should give a tour of the place so will be able to find this out.

Learning the mechanincs of life skills isn't the problem for our family. It's learning to keeo our emotions in check when doing those things.