Pam Rimmer’s FACTOR Curriculum project was awarded $234.30 for curriculum kits and student booklets for assessing and teaching everyday life skills that need improving. This is an innovative program for special needs students. Over the years OSD has focused on classroom skills, but the need is great in non-academic areas in order to help students be more successful and independent in adult life. There are 14 students at OSD who have been identified as having Autism Spectrum Disorder. 312 OSD classes incorporate life skills into their instruction. This curriculum was first designed to help autistic students, but OSD has found that it helps any student who needs daily tasks broken down into smaller steps and taught in a systematic manner. It helps staff identify student life-skills that need improvement. It provides staff with the tools needed to teach those skills. The goal is for students to develop life skills at school and then transfer those skills to real life situations in their homes, in leisure activities, on the job, etc