Development Life Skills or Development of Daily Living and Life Skills
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ACCS can assist in providing individual life skills development and training to increase your ability to live as autonomously as possible. Life Skills focuses on the abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enables you to effectively manage the demands and challenges of life. We will work with you and your family or carers to develop everyday life skills to build your independence, control and self-esteem. (Training can be individual or through group activities). Training will focus on building your capacity to manage everyday life, through the development of knowledge, skills and networks of support. Training and development include but not limited to the following:
- Personal hygiene such as showering, toileting and personal care
- Nutrition such as shopping for groceries and planning for and preparing a healthy meal
- Household management such as money skills, household care, laundry and clothes care
- Health and wellbeing such as preparing a healthy weekly menu, shopping for groceries, cooking and healthy eating, support to be more active
- Travel Training such as road safety, using public transport, planning how to get to and from destinations
- Communication to develop and maintain relationships, friendships and group work, visiting local community centres, eating out