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We have shirts for men, women and children in
various colors and styles, along with mousepads, coffee mugs for both right AND left handed coffee
lovers, even teddy bears!
The most basic skills are the ones sometimes left up to Mom & Dad to teach and
reinforce, and LucasWorks offers these Independent Living Aids to help you teach them.
Can your child:
- Dress correctly for the temperature?
- Set the table by themselves?
- Keep from using the dirty table for a plate when they eat out?
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Independent Living Aids
Our Independent Living Aids are gentle reminders that a person can use every day
to help them with these important life skills!
Teaching Temperature
Apparel Indicating Weather Thermometer, $12.00
Standard Dial, #STD-VT
- -40 to 40 degrees = coat weather
- 40 to 60 degrees = jacket weather
- 60 to 75 degrees = shirt & pants weather
- 75 degrees & up = shorts weather
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Northern Dial, #SD-VT
- -40 to 30 degrees = coat weather
- 30 to 50 degrees = jacket weather
- 50 to 65 degrees = shirt & pants weather
- 65 degrees & up = shorts weather
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Southern Dial, #ND-VT
- -40 to 50 degrees = coat weather
- 50 to 65 degrees = jacket weather
- 65 to 80 degrees = shirt & pants weather
- 80 degrees & up = shorts weather
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Our colorful Apparel Indicating Weather Thermometer shows "what to wear out
there". It makes teaching temperature much easier and clearer, with its brightly colored visual
cues.
These Independent Living Aids are available in 3 different dial
faces, because 65 degrees in Wisconsin is shorts weather, but 65 degrees in Florida is jacket
weather. Get the one that fits your climate!
- Use for teaching temperature and how to dress for it!
- Made in the USA by autistic and mentally disabled people.
- Comes full assembled, ready to hang and begin using immediately.
- Large enough to be seen by a whole classroom, day care center, etc.
- There is NO MERCURY in this thermometer.
See details on teaching temperature concepts with our Apparel
Indicating Thermometer.
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Child Placemat #020
Independent Living Aids, $5.00
These Independent Living Aids show where the plate, napkins and silverware go,
helping your child learn to set the table correctly. (Using these independent living aids could
eventually lead to employment in a restaurant or at a caterers.)
 
Placemat + a little supervision = the new independent living skill of a perfectly
set table!
- Come in your choice of three colors, green, blue or pink, each with cream
colored silhouettes of the table setting.
- They clean easily after meals, thanks to
double sided lamination.
See our Child Placemat
details.
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Disposable Placemats, #030
Independent Living Aids, $6.00/set of 4 kits.
Now you can eat out without worrying about what germs your child is putting their
food on, thanks to these disposable independent living aids!
And your child will love learning to eat properly with their friends from Sesame
Street, who live
on these delightful disposable placemats.
There's no question that eating out properly is an independent living skill we
all need some days.
Give your child an instant, germ-free surface to eat on while learning how to keep food on the
plate, etc!
These disposable placemats come in a kit that's so small (just 4 1/2 by 3 1/4
inches) it will fit in your purse, diaper bag, tote, glove compartment, just about anywhere for quick
and easy access.
These terrific Disposable Placemats contain four complete kits, each
with a disposable placemat, fork, spoon and even a bib, all easily contained within a lidded sippy
cup until you're ready to use it.
See our Disposable Placemats
details.
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Lucas wanted to wear shorts and bare feet in the snow, and he just couldn't
keep the silverware order straight.
Now he just looks at his Apparel Indicating Thermometer in the morning to get
dressed, and one of
his daily chores is to set the table, even when company comes.
Wow, two more independent living skills mastered!
Those of us who have children with special needs know how hard it is to teach
them the simplest basic independent living skills sometimes.
Sometimes it's up to the parent - Let's face it, no matter how good your
child's school program is, no matter how great the teachers, doctors and therapists are who work with
them, there are some skills that you, as the parent, will have to help your child learn:
- Dressing appropriate to the temperature - A teacher can teach
buttoning, zipping, even tying shoes, but you AND the teacher need to help your child understand that
they cannot wear their sandals in the snow, or their sweatpants when it's 94 degrees out.
- Learning to set the table - A teacher can teach eating the right foods,
and proper use of utensils, but the table usually isn't set in the school cafeteria, so that important
skill, which could someday lead to employment, can now be taught at home.
- Eating without coming into contact with a dirty table - And a teacher
usually doesn't go along on vacation or to MacDonald's, where a parent has to struggle with cleaning
off the sticky table before their child starts eating (dragging their child into the bathroom to get a
wet paper towel, then back out to the table, quickly clean it off before their child opens their meal,
then struggle with keeping the food on that slippery paper it was wrapped in...)
At home, at school, anywhere - These Independent Living Aids can provide
visual help to your child in your home, at school or elsewhere. They can be used on a daily basis to
teach and reinforce some basic skills that will benefit your child for the rest of their
lives.
Teaching temperature - We've heard too many stories of children with
autism who wander away from home, and because they were not properly dressed for the temperature, they
quickly succumb to heat or cold, suffering serious injury and even death.
Of course, teaching temperature is very difficult for these children, because
they cannot understand what the numbers on a thermometer mean with regards to hot and cold, let along
clothing!
The Apparel Indicating Thermometer is an independent living aid that can be used
daily for teaching temperature, helping to ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for outside.
Setting the table - We know how hard it is for most people with autism to
get jobs once they're finished with school. Independent living aids like our Child Placemat can teach
your child an immediate skill, and give them a skill for the future.
This Child Placemat can give your child daily practice in setting the table.
They're learning a skill AND freeing you up to make dinner!
Eating out safely - We're too familiar with how difficult it is to take a
child with autism to a restaurant, discover a sticky, dirty table, try to clean it, while keeping an
eye on your child, and then try to prevent the child from coming into contact with that table surface!
Disposable Placemats from Table Topper cover up that dirty table and provide your
child with a germ-free place to eat, while helping teach them proper use of placemat, fork, spoon and
cup.
Remember, each simple task, like dressing for the temperature and setting
the table, is one less thing your child will need done for them during their life!
Each of these Independent Living Aids use visual cues to help your child
learn some basic and necessary independent living skills.
We have other Independent Living Aids in development; stay tuned...
If you prefer, you can print a LucasWorks order form to mail with
your payment.
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