1. Self-Care Skills:
Self-care skills encompass activities such as personal hygiene, dressing, grooming, and feeding oneself. This includes tasks like brushing teeth, washing hands, and using utensils correctly.
2. Communication Skills:
Communication skills involve both receptive (understanding) and expressive (expressing) abilities. It includes non-verbal communication, such as body language and gestures, as well as verbal communication, like vocabulary, speech clarity, and understanding instructions.
3. Social Skills:
Social skills refer to the ability to interact and engage with others effectively. This includes skills like taking turns, sharing, listening, making eye contact, and understanding social cues.
4. Daily Living Skills:
Daily living skills encompass a wide range of abilities necessary for independent living, including cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, managing personal finances, using public transportation, and organizing one's belongings.
5. Cognitive Skills:
Cognitive skills involve various mental processes, such as attention, memory, problem-solving, decision-making, and critical thinking. These skills support academic learning and overall cognitive development.
6. Fine and Gross Motor Skills:
Fine motor skills involve precise movements of small muscles, like those required for writing, buttoning clothes, or using scissors. Gross motor skills involve larger muscle groups and coordination, like walking, running, jumping, and balancing.
7. Time Management Skills:
Time management skills include the ability to organize tasks, set priorities, manage time effectively, meet deadlines, and plan ahead. These skills are essential for completing tasks and being punctual.
8. Money Management Skills:
Money management skills involve understanding the value of money, budgeting, making purchases, counting and handling money, and basic financial literacy.
9. Problem-Solving Skills:
Problem-solving skills refer to the ability to analyze situations, identify challenges, generate potential solutions, evaluate options, and make decisions. These skills help individuals navigate daily challenges and overcome obstacles.
10. Safety Skills:
Safety skills encompass knowledge and behaviors related to personal safety, home safety, road safety, fire safety, emergency procedures, and basic first aid.
