Transferable Work Skills: Ability to learn and maintain work tasks within a limited amount of time.
Welcome back as we continue to discuss Employability Skills and the Local Industry standards. We will continue to explore ways to support your individual needs for competitive employment. This can seem daunting with the number of standards, 27 in all, but they were found to be the most important by industry leaders. I suggest that you and your family pick one place to start and add on from there. If you need assistance, you can always schedule an exploration call or make an appointment for services. Visit: https://tinyurl.com/GracefulTransitionsLLC
Transferable Work Skills: Ability to learn and maintain work tasks within a limited amount of time.
This section relates to skills that are found in every job, from volunteering to paid employment. These skills can be taken to any work setting and can be learned in a variety of places. Many of the practice ideas are skills that are required at an entry level position.
Family Practice Ideas:
Sweeping and vacuuming floors regularly. This allows families to gauge the speed of learning and retention.
Weekly house tasks include picking up their room, cleaning a bathroom, taking out trash or recycling, and picking up animal droppings in the yard. Add tasks on as they master tasks. Things like putting a bag in a trash can are skills that transfer to a variety of work opportunities. Hospitals use bags for soiled linen and biohazards, these bags have to be tied and replaced.
School Practice Ideas:
Classroom Jobs: Have specific jobs at the beginning or end of each day like sweeping, or vacuuming the floor, collecting trash, organizing a work area, sharpening pencils etc.
Center Activities: Have a center activity that includes job boxes. Job boxes are boxes that have tasks in them such as putting batteries in flashlights or other items, Q-tips in containers. There are a variety of boxes available online, but they can be pricey creating them with dollar store items is fairly simple.
School Store or coffee cart: for middle and high school settings having an enterprise for essential/life skills classes is a great first step to job skills. Community Coffee is a company that partners well with schools to make coffee carts/spots happen.
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Transition Education in Missouri, and most states, is considered the time period between the ages of 16 and 21. It refers to planning for life after graduation from K-12 education. Deanna believes families can prepare for "transition" long before age 16, which is the basis of the creation of Life Transition Services for Individuals with Disabilities.
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