Everyone has had a plot twist that provides them with brown water, a power outage, or heat that isn’t working. There’s a logic chain that you walk through to assess the problem, and get the help you need to fix it. Take a minute to think about how confusing that can be. You have no …
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Today, Annie and I went one step further with the “how money is spent” theme we’ve been on this week. We came up with a mock budget. Don’t @me about the numbers, please – these are very hypothetical. (Annie did insist on looking up the prices for the groceries, though) In her scenario, Annie is …
Annie and I were going to do “budgeting a grocery list” today, but when I was recapping from yesterday, she hadn’t absorbed the question of how a job is related to money. (Which is valid, I think some employers haven’t absorbed that either.) Annie does chores for which she receives an allowance, so I was …
Bills are hard to explain, and hard to understand for someone who has never paid them. For Annie, who once informed a therapist that people get money by “finding it on the ground”, understanding bills means also understanding how money works. This will be a long process for us. We decided to start with utilities, …
Annie’s transition skill today is sorting, washing, drying, folding and putting away laundry. Topics we covered include: eco friendly laundry detergent why wool balls are better than dryer sheets sorting: lights, brights, and darks what to do if the washer smells bad cleaning the lint trap not washing mom’s work clothes (!) what if you …
Simply put, this is the period of time in the education of a special ed student’s life, when we start planning for the future. From the age of 14 until a student’s 22nd birthday (or until they graduate), the public school system must work with your student on Transition Planning. Here’s the kicker – it’s …
