The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of routines-based model intervention for improving life skills of young children with special needs. This study utilized action research design. The participants were two young children with life skills needs and their parents. To evaluate young children’s life skills needs, this study analyzed their performance in three periods. Also, this study investigated the influence of the parenting stress of the young children’s families. This action research used triangulation to check the reliability of data, while the standardized tests and goal attainment scaling were used in this study to understand the variation between the young children’s life skill and family members’ parenting stress.