Menu of Services for Skill Building
Pre-Employment Skills
- Following one/multi-step directions
- Task completion
- Self evaluation
- Following a schedule/routine
- Attending to a task
- Problem solving skills
- Choice making
- Successful communication
- Fine motor skills
- Matching
- Money skills (budgeting, counting, etc.)
- Sorting (by: color, size, pattern, number, etc.)
- Assembling
- Transferring items
- Number recognition/identification
- Days of the week
- Months of the year
- Counting (numbers, money, items, etc.)
- Letter recognition/identification
- Identify holidays
Employment/Specific Job Skills
Retail Skills
Potential Jobs: cashier, bagger, stocker, greeter, etc.
- Greet customers
- Matching merchandise
- Sorting merchandise
- Stocking shelves
- Folding items
- Straightening items on shelves
- Pricing items
- Using a cash register
- Counting money
- Making change
- Bagging merchandise
Janitorial Skills
Potential Jobs: custodian
- Sanitizing
- Wiping various surfaces
- Washing dishes
- Using a dishwasher
- Trash collection
- Mopping
- Vacuuming
- Dusting
- Locking and unlocking doors
- Outdoor maintenance
- Landscaping
- Cleaning tables
Office/Clerical Skills
Potential Jobs: receptionist, data entry, filing
- Paper shredding
- Alphabetizing
- Sorting by zip code
- Distributing mail
- Stuffing envelopes
- Collating
- Computer skills/Typing
- Lamination
- Photocopying
- Binding
Functional Life Skills
Participants learn and/or practice skills that are needed to in the home and workplace
Food Prep Skills
- Washing hands
- Kitchen safety
- Gathering ingredients
- Gathering tools
- Reading a recipe
- Measuring
- Making shopping list
- Kitchen cleanup
Fitness Skills
- Improve/Maintain/Practice Gross motor skills
- Improve/Maintain/Practice Range of motion
- Leading a group
- Personal space
- Proper hygiene during and after
- Following directions
- Proper stretching
Laundry Skills
- Matching by color and size
- Sorting by color and size
- Hanging clothes
- Measuring laundry soap
- Adding laundry soap/softener/bleach
- Settings for washer/dryer
Hygiene
- What is good hygiene
- Showering/Bathing
- Tools/Materials needed to stay clean
- How to stay clean
- Washing clothes (frequency)
- Appropriate clothing for seasons
Health/Nutrition
- Learn healthy foods
- Make healthy choices and shopping lists
- Understand nutrition labels
- Eating out and eating healthy
Leisure/Recreation
- Making choices
- Socialization
- Eye contact
- Turn taking
- Identify interests
- Discover new skills and interests
- Gardening
- Fitness
- Jewelry making
- Card making
- Scrapbooking
- Crafting
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