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, Independent Living Aids #25AT Apparel Indicating Weather Thermometer, $12.00 Select Regional dial face: Standard Northern Southern Standard Dial, #25AT-STD -40 to 40 degrees = coat weather  40 to 60 degrees = jacket weather  60 to 75 degrees = shirt & pants weather  75 degrees & up = shorts weather   Northern Dial, #25AT-ND -40 to 30 degrees = coat weather  30 to 50 degrees = jacket weather  50 to 65 degrees = shirt & pants weather  65 degrees & up = shorts weather   Southern Dial, #25AT-SD -40 to 50 degrees = coat weather  50 to 65 degrees = jacket weather  65 to 80 degrees = shirt & pants weather  80 degrees & up = shorts weather   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.

Child Placemat, Independent Living Aids #25CP $5.00 Select Color: Pastel Blue Pastel Pink 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! Comes in your choice of sky blue or pastel 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.

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.

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!

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...

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