Home Catalogue Books and Resources

A comprehensive picture-based hands-on life skill series with five Instructor's Guides and corresponding Student Materials

Five updated instructor’s guides by Attainment form a comprehensive, easy-to-follow life skills curriculum.

The books cover personal care, housekeeping, shopping, cooking, and dining out.

Each instructor’s guide is self-contained in a spiral bound, reproducible book that provides all the lessons, with reproducible step-by-step activity illustrations, measurable objectives and assessment forms you need to plan your class.

Features

• Step-by-step picture training
• Sequenced picture cues
• Home questionnaire
• Tons of reproducibles
• Photo task sequencing
• Includes extensive picture-based training aids for your students
• Hundreds of step-by-step activity illustrations
• photo concept pages

The Student Materials set is a classroom-ready, hands-on complement to the five Instructor’s Guides. Features a total of 624 laminated cue cards and a handy Pocket Book. the redesigned multimedia Picture Cue Dictionary Software matches the card illustrations, combining text and speech with an easy-to-use interface. Ideal for developing functional vocabulary, reviewing lists of things to do, or printing out additional cue cards.

This Book and Resource Package includes the following instructor’s guides:

• Looking Good – Personal care
  
  • 215 page instructor’s guide focusing on 47 personal care activities
    
  • Each activity is illustrated step-by-step in a reproducible format and described in lesson plans featuring objectives, data forms and training suggestions
    
  • 72 laminated routine cards fit in the pocket book to help users organise a plan for doing grooming independently. Updated 2002.

  View Table of Contents and sample pages (pdf 719 KB)

• Keeping House – At home or at work
  
  • 217 page instructor’s guide focusing on 48 housekeeping activities
    
  • Each activity is illustrated step-by-step in a reproducible format and described in lesson plans featuring objectives, data forms and training suggestions
    
  • 72 laminated routine cards fit in the pocket book to help users organise a plan for doing grooming independently. Updated 2002.

  View a sample page

• Shopping Smart – Grocery and supermarkets
  
  • 230 page instructor’s guide featuring illustrated step-by-step sequences of grocery and department store shopping
    
  • Lesson plans provide objectives, data forms and training suggestions
    
  • 288 full-colour laminated cards that illustrate food and non-food items. These colourful cards can help teach about shopping items and can be arranged in the pocket book to create an illustrated shopping list for non-readers. Updated 2002.

• Home Cooking – Stove and microwave
  
  • 160 page instructor’s guide and a beautifully illustrated cookbook
    
  • 38 lessons with objectives, training suggestions and reproducible recipe pages
    
  • 37 healthy, easy-to-prepare conventional oven and microwave recipes, printed in colour and black line
    
  • Cookbook pages are laminated for protection and displayed in an easel binder for easy viewing. Updated 2006.

  View Table of Contents and sample pages (pdf 1.8 MB)

• Select-A-Meal – Fast food, table service restaurant, cafeteria
  
  • 195 page instructor’s guide covering dining at fast food or table service restaurants, school cafeteria or home!
    
  • Step-by-step dining instructions, table manners, appropriate social skills
    
  • Reproducibles include food cards, picture step pages, communication cues, money aids and data sheets
    
  • 144 laminated food choice cards, illustrated menu and pocket book. Updated 2003.
  
  

Related Products

• Mary on the Move DVD Series

Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Life Skills Curricula Series - All 5 Books and Resources Package	Includes Looking Good book, Keeping House book, Shopping Smart book, Home Cooking book, Select-A-Meal book, and all training aids/cards and Picture Cue Dictionary software
	ACLSF-15	CD-ROM, Book, Resource	Mac, Win	$319.00	$0.00
	Life Skills Curricula Books Package - 5 Books only	Includes Looking Good book, Keeping House book, Shopping Smart book, Home Cooking book, and Select-A-Meal book. Does not include training aids or cards.
	bACLSF-09	Book		$90.90	$9.09