At Functional Living Skills, we believe that community participation is an essential part of growth for your learner. Designed to foster a pathway to independence via skills and confidence, the AFLS is designed specifically to help you track goals, assess progress, and help your learner to grow and thrive. With protocols on everything from basicRead More
Creating An Independent Living Skills Checklist for Parents of Children With Autism
At Functional Living Skills, our goal is to create the most useable developmental tools to help teach practical life skills to children and adults with developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. In creating the Assessment of Functional Living Skills Protocols, we made it a point to ensure that each of the tools you’ll find onRead More
The Importance of Displaying Positivity
Functional Living Skills is all about promoting a pathway to independence for people with developmental disabilities. Although there are many ways to do this, in today’s post, we’d like to focus on how important positivity can be throughout the process. Just as negativity is contagious, so is being positive. As you probably know, the needRead More
What Learning Skills Are You Missing? Find Out With AFLS
Are you seeking to develop a daily living skills checklist for adults or children with developmental disabilities? It can be hard to know where to start. At Functional Living Skills, our goal is to help. Whether that means offering checklists that help children with autism to develop daily routines or hosting introductory workshops that provideRead More
The Importance of Home Skills
Creating a pathway to independence often starts at home. For those with autism spectrum disorder, daily tasks like preparing meals, doing dishes, washing clothing, and keeping up with housekeeping and chores can be a challenge. The Assessment of Functional Living Skills offers the essential skills needed for functional living. Whether the learner is living withRead More
What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Did you know that about one in 68 children in the United States has an ASD, according to the CDC? Additionally, boys are four times more likely to have autism than girls. The reality is that there’s actually quite a bit of confusion over what the autism spectrum even is. Who better to sum itRead More
The Importance of A Daily Living Skills Checklist
One of the great things about the Assessment of Functional Living Skills is that it is designed to help such a wide range of people. Appropriate for those from early elementary all the way up through adulthood, this criterion-referenced assessment is designed in such a way that a number of different people can benefit fromRead More
A Look at Functional Living Skills
A pathway to independence for learners with developmental disabilities, Functional Living Skills is designed to help provide resources to those who need them. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (also known as ASD) tend to have difficulty in some areas and success in others. Because every person is unique, our goal is to provide people withRead More
