Getting Unstuck is from Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills and life skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike. It is a stand-alone unit providing students with skills to move from one step to another in a problem or project when they are feeling stuck and unsure how to take the next step. It offers students 20 strategies to "get unstuck."

Like the other books in this series, it contains airy pages and bullet-point information for easy, independent study, yet, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition skills and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.

Written on a 3rd/4th-grade level, workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-four page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real-world activities are provided whenever possible.

Lessons in Daily Living Skills' Getting Unstuck include:
 
What does it mean when we're stuck?
Kinds of goals
Making their goal my goal
Transition Twenty
Bite-Size it
One goal today
Draw a diagram
Make a checklist
Time it
Talk it out
Find a tutorial
Ask online
Answer a question
Take a break
Walk it out
Just keep trying
Help a friend
Look around
Tell a story
Sleep on it
A Problem=An Opportunity
Try something else
List your "knowns"
Transition Twenty Reminder Cards
Using Your Tools
Why I procratinate
Three steps to success

Additionally, this book provides a student grading sheet, answer key and a Parent Letter suggesting at-home activities for families in accordance with federal mandates.

A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.