Over the past six weeks, middle and high school students with disabilities have been honing their functional life skills by ...

"Our kids are learning functional life skills, so that would be interacting with different staff on campus. There's also the money handling skills, so that was another reason we do a coffee cart.

Social-emotional skills—listening and following directions and sharing, cooperating with others, and taking turns—topped the list of the tasks that children today are having more trouble with ...

After attending Unit 4 schools throughout her childhood, Alexandra Wells is in her second year as a functional-life-skills teacher at Jefferson Middle School in Champaign. After attending Unit 4 ...