Visual Independent Living/Life Skills Weekly Tracking - Neurodivergent/Autism

This is an excellent resource for a parent, teacher, or student!    Great for PT, OT, Home Schooling, Special Education, Autistic, & Neurodivergent Learners.

• You can track independent living/life skills learned for each day of the week.  All you have to do is write in the date, if you’d like.
• There are 27 skills listed – starting with the basics, then advancing on to more advanced life skills.

I have paired an image with each skill, making it more accessible to visual learners.

The independent learning/life skills tracked are:

1. Personal Hygiene/Grooming
2. Dressing/Undressing
3. Meal Preparation/Feeding
4. Mobility/Community Navigation
5. Managing Sensory Needs
6. Finding/Utilizing Resources
7. Toileting
8. Emergency Preparedness/Management
9. Money Management
10. Housekeeping
11. Laundry/Clothing Repair
12. Health/Medicine Management
13. Leisure Time/Recreation
14. Self-Advocacy
15. Self-Awareness/Self-Regulation
16. Perspective/Empathy
17. Communication/Interpersonal Skills
18. Critical Thinking/Problem Solving/Decision Making
19. Personal Reflection
20. Making Connections/Generalizing Skills
21. Accepting/Managing Challenges
22. Flexible Thinking
23. Resiliency/Coping Skills/Generalizing Skills
24. Social Media Usage/Navigation
25. Trusting Others
26. Time Management
27. Making/Completing Goals

The checklist covers most of the skills that are needed for independent living.  It’s perfect for helping young neurotypical kids… up to neurodivergent tweens, teens, and adults.

Are you a classroom teacher?  

• You can send this sheet home for students (and/or their parents) to track their own learning.  They can then report back to you!  
• You can keep a sheet for each student, and use it to log skills you notice that the student has or is working on.  
• There are a myriad of ways to make this work for you!

I made this for a home-schooling mother of 2 neurodivergent girls.  She uses it so she can really see just how many life skills they are learning – outside of formal instructional time.

The girls are also learning to self-report, using the images I’ve paired with each skill.  My friend has a page for each girl on the fridge, in a page protector.  Anyone in the family can check things off with a dry erase marker, and re-use weekly.  She actually makes a copy of the marked up pages before erasing them, then collects the tracking sheets in a binder that she has for each girl.

Please let me know if you’d like me to re-format this page to your personal liking. I'm happy to do so!