Transferable Work Skills: meet/maintain industry standards for pace, quantity, and quality of work.
Welcome back, Deanna Heuring, with Graceful Transitions, as she continues to discuss Employability Skills and the Local Industry standards. We will continue to look at ways you can support your individual NOW 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: meet/maintain industry standards for pace, quantity, and quality of work.
Home Ideas:
When individuals are working on home chore tasks, time them, and then work to improve that time without sacrificing quality. For example, if you can clean the individual's bathroom in 30 minutes, help them work toward a similar time expectation after the required skills are taught, modeled, and practiced.
Think about making the individual's chores commensurate with their age. For example, many 16-year-olds are responsible for more than taking their plate to the counter and putting their laundry in a hamper. Add chores as age-appropriate, especially ones that support independent living.
Welcome back as we continue to discuss Employment Skills and the Local Industry standards. When you demonstrate the task, show them how it looks when you are finished and what the expectation is. Take pictures to document what a good job looks like, so they can refer to them when completing the task.
After your individual has worked on a task, use the quality pictures with them to review their work, discussing both what they did well and areas for improvement. This also helps with receiving constructive criticism and independently recognizing mistakes and correcting them, which will be discussed later.
School Ideas:
Give individuals classroom tasks and set time goals, and use a timer to track progress. Help them track the times and progress over time so they can understand.
Work with individuals to help them set their own expectations for quality work, so they take pride in what they are doing.
When work is submitted that doesn't meet the quality expectations individuals have set for themselves, review it with them and discuss where it meets and falls short. This aligns with the expectation to independently recognize and correct mistakes, a point that will be explored further.
Review quality work in community jobs. For example, what does a clean restroom look like? What do you expect to see when using the restroom somewhere? What would make you not want to use a restroom?
Deanna Heuring, Ed.S., has been an educational professional for 18 years, with 16 of those years dedicated to Special Education. For the past 12 years, Deanna has devoted her career to Transition Education. Under Federal Guidelines, Transition Education is the period between the ages of 16 and 21. Based on her own experience as both an educator and an advocate for families, Deanna discovered that life after formal education begins long before the age of 16. In June 2023, she established her own business, Graceful Transitions, with the specific intent of supporting families, IEP teams, and fellow educators in creating an environment that produces the best possible outcomes for individuals undergoing profound life transitions.
For more information about Deanna and her work, visit https://tinyurl.com/GracefulTransitions
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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