1-on-1 Life Skills Tutoring Program

Learn practical skills like cooking, communication, and time management with a trained ElevateAbility Tutor.

How it works

Your Goals

Our guided learning program starts with your strengths, priorities, and pace. It’s personalized, like tutoring for life skills. Every activity is chosen to build real-world abilities, one step at a time.

Where You Learn Best

We offer sessions in a variety of settings to meet your needs—in your home, at our tutoring office (if available in your area), or virtually. Wherever we meet, our focus stays the same: personalized, practical learning, and meaningful progress.

Dynamic Curriculum

Our person-centered curriculum teaches real-life skills, from communication to time management, in a way that’s hands-on, flexible, and tailored to each client’s goals and learning style.

Helping You Thrive

Academic Support

Strengthen reading, writing, math, and study habits to build confidence in school and beyond.

Social Confidence

Make friends, join conversations, and build healthy, meaningful connections with others.

Independent Living Skills

Learn to cook, clean, do laundry, and handle daily responsibilities with greater independence.

Life Management

Organize time, remember important tasks, and create routines that support everyday success.

Healthy Routines

Build habits and understanding around hygiene, sleep, nutrition to support long-term well-being.

Career Exploration

Identify strengths, explore interests, and imagine exciting paths for the future.

Community Navigation

Use transportation, access services, and move confidently through your community.

Job Readiness

Practice writing resumes, preparing for interviews, and developing professional skills for the workplace.

Goal Setting

Set meaningful goals, track progress, and celebrate achievements along the way.

Our Approach

At ElevateAbility, we offer structured, one-on-one life skills tutoring designed to teach—not supervise—everyday independent living skills. Our tutors follow individualized lesson plans tailored to each learner’s goals, using a consistent framework of instruction, guided practice, and reflection to promote real understanding. Our sessions are educational in nature, helping learners build skills they can use independently—not just in the moment, but for life.

We focus on practical skill-building areas such as meal planning, personal care routines, communication, organization, and navigating daily tasks. Each learner begins with a skills assessment and a customized set of objectives, providing a clear structure for progress and accountability.

Our tutors are teachers and coaches—not aides or direct support professionals. They do not accompany learners through their day or assist with tasks as they arise. Instead, they provide targeted instruction using ElevateAbility’s curriculum and experiential learning strategies, ensuring that every session is goal-based and purposeful.

We emphasize strong tutor-learner relationships and align each match with the learner’s personality, communication style, and interests. This helps foster engagement, motivation, and meaningful growth.

Getting started is easy. We begin with a consultation to understand your goals, complete a skills assessment, and build a personalized learning plan. We’ll also walk you through funding options—including private pay, self-direction budgets, and other resources. Our mission is to help each learner grow in skill, confidence, and independence—step by step.

3 Ways to Learn

At Home

Tutoring in the comfort of your own home: personalized, familiar, and hands-on.

Tutoring Office

Come to your local tutoring office (if available in your area) for structured, goal-focused sessions in a welcoming environment.

Virtual

Meet online from anywhere for flexible, consistent tutoring that fits your schedule.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Life Skills Tutors are not caregivers they’re coaches and teachers. Their role is to help clients actively build skills through guided learning, not to complete tasks for them. Sessions are limited to 4 hours per day and follow a structured, goal-based format focused on long-term independence.

  • Clients may choose between 1 and 5 sessions per week, with each session lasting 4 hours. On average, clients participate in 3 sessions weekly. Schedules are personalized to meet each client’s needs and availability.

    Available sessions:

    • Morning: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

    • Afternoon:2:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    • Evening: 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM

  • ElevateAbility offers person-centered, real-life learning more like tutoring for daily living. We teach in the home and community, focusing on practical experiences, not lectures or worksheets.

  • While we support hygiene routines as part of life skills learning (like brushing teeth or planning grooming), LSTs are not aides or nurses and do not provide hands-on personal care or medical support.

  • ElevateAbility is ideal for anyone seeking to develop independent living skills. While many, but not all, clients may experience a disability, we work with clients of all abilities, ages 18 and up.

  • Our tutors are trained to adapt their approach for a wide range of needs. As long as a client can engage in the learning process, even with support, they can benefit from our program.

  • Many of our clients do work with caregivers. Caregivers provide essential day-to-day support, while ElevateAbility focuses on skill-building. We’re here to help your loved one learn how to do more on their own. It’s not either/or. Our tutoring is a perfect complement to caregiving services.

  • Some do, but not in a client’s home, and typically not 1-on-1. ElevateAbility works in the places where skills are actually used, like a client’s kitchen or laundry room. We tailor every session to the individual, which makes the learning stick. Families may choose to enroll to supplement learning that happens at a day program.

  • Our programs are designed for adults, age 18 and up. There’s no upper age limit; as long as you're interested in building skills, making friends, and being part of a community, you’re welcome here.

  • Many clients use their self-directed budgets to cover the cost of our programs. Others are funded through their school district, and some choose to private pay. We’ll work with you to find the best option based on your situation. Just reach out and we’ll walk you through it.

  • Life happens! If you need to miss a visit, you can make it up within the same month, based on your mentor’s availability. We’ll do our best to reschedule at a time that works for everyone.

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