Sooo…What Are Adaptive Skills? These 10 skill areas include.
- Self-Care – bathing, dressing, grooming, and feeding one’s self;
- Communication Skills – understanding and using verbal and nonverbal language;
- Self-Direction – problem-solving, exercising choice, initiating and planning activities;
- Social Skills – maintaining interpersonal relationships, understanding emotions and social cues, understanding fairness and honesty, obeying rules and laws;
- Leisure Skills – taking responsibility for one’s own activities, having the ability to participate in the community;
- Home or School Living – housekeeping, cooking, doing laundry, maintaining living space;
- Functional Academics – using reading, writing, and math skills in everyday life;
- Community Use – shopping, using public transportation, using community services;
- Work – ability to maintain part-time or full-time employment, either competitive or sheltered, ability to work under supervision, cooperate with coworkers, be reliable and punctual, and meet work standards, and;
- Health and Safety – ability to protect one’s self, responding to health problems.
