Teach your students how to live safely, healthfully, and fully with the LifeFacts Family Life Curriculum.
For individuals with special needs, navigating life can be a significant challenge. From understanding personal finance to staying safe in the community, the obstacles can seem overwhelming.
That is where the LifeFacts Family Life Curriculum Series comes in – a course of study designed to empower individuals with special needs to live life more fully, safely, and healthfully.
The LifeFacts Curriculum Series is a comprehensive course of study that focuses on core areas of knowledge essential for making competent decisions in specific life contexts. The series consists of 6 teacher’s guides: Family Life, Health and Wellness, Money Matters, Safety and Security, Self-Advocacy, and Social Relationships.
Each teacher’s guide comprises six to eight chapters, and each chapter contains age-appropriate activities, worksheets, and visual aids to help students with special needs learn essential life skills.
What makes LifeFacts especially effective is its diagnostic/prescriptive approach. Rather than using a one-size-fits-all curriculum, the program uses behavioral objectives and structured lesson plans to prescribe instruction based on each student’s current knowledge level. This means educators can target gaps efficiently and document measurable progress for IEP goals.
The program uses video modeling and color teaching illustrations to present concepts visually, making abstract topics like money management and personal safety concrete and understandable. Each module includes pretest/post-test instruments so you can measure growth and adjust instruction accordingly.
This curriculum is presented in a relaxed, child-friendly format that makes it accessible for even the youngest students.
This curriculum is designed to provide individuals with developmental and learning disabilities with a core body of knowledge that will help them make competent decisions, take appropriate actions, and live life to the fullest.
Each LifeFacts program focuses on a specific topic relevant to daily life. These topics include Abuse Prevention, Smart Trust, AIDS, Managing Emotions, Sexuality, Substance Abuse, and Injury & Illness. With these programs, your students will gain essential knowledge on everything from staying safe to managing their emotions, all presented in a way that is both pragmatic and easy to understand.
The heart of each LifeFacts Family Life program is the diagnostic/prescriptive curriculum. This curriculum uses a sequence of behavioral objectives and lesson plans to prescribe instruction, ensuring that your students receive the relevant and appropriate information they need.
In addition, a collection of teaching pictures is included digitally to help present and reinforce lesson content. These teaching pictures can also be used in presentations or assessment interviews.
To further reinforce the lessons learned, LifeFacts Family Life also includes student worksheets. These worksheets are designed to follow up and reinforce learning, helping your students better digest the information and apply it to their daily lives.
Pretest/post-test instruments are also included, allowing you to assess your students’ knowledge in each topic area. The assessment questions are also useful for preparing an individualized education plan (IEP).
LifeFacts: Sexuality
The LifeFacts: Sexuality program is an essential resource for teaching the facts of intimate human relationships to adolescents and adults with special needs. It includes a section on HIV/AIDS to ensure your students have all the information they need to make safe and responsible choices.
The program features a video and 54 color illustrations to engage and educate your students. A teacher’s guide is also included to help you deliver effective lessons your students will remember.
LifeFacts: Substance Abuse
Substance abuse and chemical dependency can have devastating effects on individuals and their families. The LifeFacts: Substance Abuse program teaches students about the dangers of substance abuse and emphasizes how they can avoid drugs and make healthy choices.
LifeFacts: Sexual Abuse Prevention
Sexual abuse is an epidemic that affects millions of individuals worldwide. The LifeFacts: Sexual Abuse Prevention program contains the materials necessary to teach abuse recognition, prevention, and protection strategies for adolescents and adults with special needs.
LifeFacts: SmartTrust
SmartTrust strategies are essential for helping students avoid falling prey to financial, social, physical, and emotional exploitation. The LifeFacts: SmartTrust program provides students with the tools they need to recognize and avoid abuse and exploitation.
LifeFacts: Managing Emotions
Managing emotions can be a challenging task, especially for individuals with special needs. The LifeFacts: Managing Emotions program teaches students techniques to effectively manage anger, sadness, fear, and joy.
LifeFacts: Health, Illness, and Injury
Teaching important lessons about health is essential for adolescents and young adults with learning difficulties who need preparation for the dangers of illnesses and injury. The LifeFacts: Health, Illness, and Injury program provides students with the necessary information to stay healthy and avoid preventable illnesses and injuries.
Students will feel empowered as they put these concepts into practice and start seeing positive results in their relationships.
As an educator, it is essential to equip your students with the tools they need to succeed in every aspect of life, including essential life skills.
The LifeFacts Complete Program offers students a comprehensive understanding of essential life skills such as human relationships, substance abuse prevention, sexual abuse prevention, SmartTrust strategies, managing emotions, and health, illness, and injury.
Each topic is crucial for students to understand, and by completing this program, they will have a better understanding of themselves and the world around them.
Make sure your students get the best advantage of the LifeFacts Complete Program – and experience major personal and professional growth.
The diagnostic/prescriptive structure of LifeFacts makes it particularly valuable for educators who need to demonstrate student progress. The built-in pretest and post-test instruments provide clear, measurable data that can be used in IEP meetings, transition planning, and program evaluations.
Because each module is self-contained, educators can implement the series flexibly – teaching all six guides as a comprehensive curriculum or selecting individual modules that address specific student needs. The visual teaching aids and reproducible worksheets ensure that lessons are accessible to students with diverse learning styles, and the video components provide the modeling and reinforcement that help skills transfer to real-world settings.
Available as part of Stanfield+ – $999/year for 60+ programs with a 30-day free trial.
The skills learned are designed to be lifelong assets, aiding students in feeling secure and connected throughout their educational journey and beyond.
LifeFacts is designed for students ages 16+, including those with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, and emotional/behavioral needs. The content uses video modeling with real-life scenarios that work across ability levels.
The program includes 30 lessons. Each lesson includes streaming video content, a comprehensive digital teacher's guide with step-by-step instructions, printable student worksheets, discussion activities, and assessment tools. All materials are accessible from any browser.
Yes. LifeFacts is included in Stanfield+ ($999/year for the full 60+ program library). Both plans include a 30-day free trial with no credit card required.
LifeFacts aligns to CASEL Social-Emotional Learning standards, ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors, and IEP Goal Domains. Standards alignment documentation is available for every lesson to support compliance and IEP planning.
Yes. All Stanfield programs stream from any browser — smartboards, projectors, Chromebooks, tablets, or any internet-connected device. The entire library is also closed-captioned for accessibility.
Yes. LifeFacts was specifically designed for students with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and related needs. The concentric circles model provides a concrete, visual framework that students on the spectrum can understand and apply to real social situations.
