Teen / Adult

Daily Living Skills for Teens and Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Attainment Family provides books, DVDs and software that explore daily living skills for teens and young adults with developmental disabilities. Graphic novels and software explore modern topics like communication at work and healthy conflict resolution, helping teens and young adults with special needs learn the necessary skills to develop meaningful relationships. Step by step picture directions for cooking, safety skills and other daily tasks empower young adults with developmental disabilities to do more independently. Teens in transition learn essential skills for independence while having fun! DVDs model self determination through engaging real life stories of young adults with developmental disabilities making strides towards independent living. Students in transition and their parents will enjoy setting goals for independent living by exploring essential skills together.

Basic Sight Words Software

Digital Flash Cards for the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary

Basic Sight Words Flash Cards Software is designed for users who need extra practice with sight word recognition. A series of activities using digital flash cards gives a variety of cues (and the repetition they need) to learn words from the Dolch lists. Individual word lists of any length can be created for special interests or needs.

Multiple Pricing Options Available.

Survival Signs and Symbols Software

Digital Flash Cards for recognition of real-world signs

Survival Signs & Symbols Flash Cards Software presents these signs and symbols in a multimedia format. The software is designed for non-readers who need to learn the meaning of common community signs. A series of activities using digital flash cards gives users a variety of cues, both visual and aural, and the repetition they need to learn to recognize the signs.

Multiple Pricing Options Available.

Picture Cue Dictionary Software

A powerful way to teach vocabulary phrases and to use them in daily life.

Activities in a person's world, like shopping and personal care, are supported by over 700 phrases — each represented with text, speech, and illustration.

Picture Cue Dictionary is divided into five word lists: daily activities, housekeeping, personal care, mealtime, and shopping. You create personalized lists. Word cards can be presented with or without text and speech, and users have three activity options: identification, match and text. The sequence of a word list can reflect a daily routine, menu preferences, an activity schedule, a shopping list, or a functional vocabulary assignment.

Multiple Pricing Options Available.

Focus on Feelings

Learn to recognize essential emotions in typical social situations

Focus on Feelings is a collection of photo-illustrated stories for the teen or young adult reading at a second grade level or below. The well-written and carefully conceived social scenarios incorporate true-to-life experiences that reflect modern times and attitudes.

Multiple Pricing Options Available.

Safety Skills Reader

Essential everyday safety skills in the home and community

Safety Skills Reader is ideal for self-study for the teen or young adult reading at a second grade level or below. Its carefully conceived and well-illustrated stories cover 26 scenarios and a wide variety of essential everyday safety skills in the home and the community that need to be mastered before taking on the challenge of independent living.

Multiple Pricing Options Available.

Learning to Work

A book about working that is written at a first grade level showing people with disabilities in real work settings.

Learning to Work provides engaging and age-appropriate reading material for adolescents and young adults who do not read conventionally. The 18 photo-illustrated stories are intended to be read with a partner—a same-age peer who is reading at grade level, a teacher, or a parent.

Item No: LTW-00AF
$29.00

Picture Directions

Activities illustrated step-by-step in color!

Many people with disabilities can perform activities independently by following picture directions. This book features 46 lessons divided into five categories: Cooking, Crafts, Life Skills, Play and Discovery. Each lesson features an illustrated "You will need" checklist plus step-by-step instructions—four to a page. Teacher Tips help you plan your instructional strategies.

Item No: PI-02AF
$29.00

Mary on the Move DVD Series

A classic miniseries, now on DVD!

Watch Mary, a young woman with developmental disabilities, make steady strides toward self-sufficiency in this six-part series.

Multiple Pricing Options Available.

Look 'n Cook Cookbook and DVD Set

Cooking can be a joy with 62 step-by-step illustrated recipes!

Look ’n Cook Cookbook features 62 step-by-step recipes with illustrations that are clear, concise, and easy to “read.” Each picture step has accompanying text. A color-coding system makes it easy to follow measurement and temperature requirements. The cookbook has laminated pages in a wipe-clean vinyl binder with built-in easel.

Multiple Pricing Options Available.

Look 'n Cook Microwave Cookbook

Make it quickly, easily, and independently!

Look ’n Cook Microwave Cookbook features 68 updated, easy-to-make microwave recipes that combine packaged and from-scratch ingredients. Recipes are illustrated step by step so even nonreaders can build independence in the kitchen and become successful cooks. Each picture step has accompanying text. An easily implemented color-coding system makes it a breeze to follow microwave setting instructions. The cookbook has laminated pages for easy clean-up, and the spiral binder lays flat on the counter for ease of use.

Item No: LC-M01AF
$34.00