Getting a Paycheck is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills workbook series offering life skills and transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike to meet federal mandates for transition skills and prepare students for employment and adult living. These workbooks serve as both a traditional print version and an interactive version - using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
This workbook serves as both a traditional print workbook and an interactive workbook for use with Adobe Acrobat.
Getting a Paycheck provides instruction in adult living skills and transitional skills for both mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike and provides adult living skills for special needs teens to meet federal transition mandates, Indicator 13 requirements, and SCAN recommendations.
Lessons in Daily Living Skills' Getting a Paycheck include:
- Whose Time is it?
- What’s an Emergency?
- Taking Breaks
- Social Security Cards
- Hourly or Salaried?
- Overtime
- Pay Periods
- Gross vs. Net Pay
- Deductions
- W-4 Forms
- Keeping the Job
- Bank Accounts
- Fiscal Responsibility
- Needs vs. Wants
- The 50/20/30 Rule
- Rainy Day Funds
- Cards
- Getting Out of Balance
- Credit Card Debt
- Your Credit Score
- Your W-2 Form
- Filing Your Taxes
Also included are Parent Verification Letters, answer key, and grading sheet
A Teacher's Manual (sold separately) provides tips on organizing and setting up a transition program, pre-and post-test assessments, class grading sheets, written ITP goals for each workbook to plug into annual IEP's, and code numbers and definitions for federal transition standards for each book.
A Powerpoint presentation is available free on this site to introduce your class/parents/administrators to the program.
Download our interactive 2021 Catalog containing links to all our Daily Living Skills workbooks, powerpoints, and videos.