Essential for Living
McGreevy's functional life-skills assessment and curriculum for learners with moderate-to-severe disabilities.
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Moderate-to-severe learners · Functional communication priorities
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Essential for Living, by Patrick McGreevy, is an assessment and curriculum built around the most essential functional skills — communication, daily living, and tolerance repertoires — for learners with moderate-to-severe disabilities of any age. Practices serving complex-needs populations often reach for it where milestone-based early-learner tools stop fitting.
What is Essential for Living?
Essential for Living is mcGreevy's functional life-skills assessment and curriculum for learners with moderate-to-severe disabilities. It is listed in the Diagnostics & Assessment category of The ABA Index.
How much does Essential for Living cost?
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Who is Essential for Living best for?
Based on its positioning and documented use: Moderate-to-severe learners; Functional communication priorities.
What are alternatives to Essential for Living?
Other tools in the Diagnostics & Assessment category include ABLLS-R, ADOS-2, AFLS, As You Are. Each has an independent profile on The ABA Index.
ABLLS-R
Partington's criterion-referenced assessment of basic language and learner skills across 25 skill areas.
ADOS-2
The semi-structured, standardized diagnostic observation widely treated as the gold standard in autism evaluation.
AFLS
Assessment of Functional Living Skills — practical independence skills across home, school, and community.
As You Are
Virtual clinic providing telehealth autism diagnostic evaluations for children.
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