Amador Valley High – Life Skills: Community, Recreation, and Leisure

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

This is a practical course designed to support students with disabilities in learning and practicing skills needed to access community environments and to develop recreation/leisure skills. This class will develop students’ knowledge and skills in following directions, ordering/purchasing items in the community, engaging in appropriate social interactions, safe and independent travel, use of the telephone, and knowledge of personal information. Students will be explicitly taught and/or encouraged to engage in constructive and personally satisfying recreation and leisure activities in which they make choices, take turns, show preferences, cope with waiting, engage in physical fitness activities, develop hobbies, and self-engage for increasing lengths of time. The overarching goal is to maxi