Life Skills Resources

The Autism Awareness Centre website has several helpful articles about life skills and stories of autistic people who live independently.

The Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Life skills and Education for Students with Autism and Other Pervasive Behavioral Challenges (LEAP) teaches life skills to children with severe cases of autism with behavioral problems.

This education site provides advice about autism and life skills.

This blog contains many useful checklists and resource links for teaching basic life skills to people with autism.

Goodwill Industries are innovative and sustainable social enterprises that create job training programs, employment placement and other community-based programs by selling donated clothing and house hold items in more than 3,300 Goodwill stores (North America) and online at shopgoodwill.com® and other e-commerce platforms.

The Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center has a vocational training program for autistic people ages 13 and up.

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