What is the Child’s Goal:

• Employment
• Vocational/Technical Training
• Higher Education
• Residential
• Transportation/mobility
• Financial/income
• Self-determination
• Social competence
• Health/safety

What Skills to Work On:

Source (and more ideas): http://www.tacanow.org/family-resources/teens-with-asd-life-skills/

Pick Out Skills that Specifically Relate to Speech and Language/Communication:

• Planning and sequencing a task
• Read a recipe/follow directions on a package
• How to find reliable information online
• How to be safe online (what to share, what not to share)
• How to ask for help or report a problem
• How (and when) to call emergency services
• Conflict Resolution
• Reading a map/navigating through town
• Work-Place communication tasks
• Ordering food at restaurants or making purchases at stores
• Making, keeping, and cancelling appointments
• Greeting strangers
• Answering questions
• Self-advocacy (asking for special accommodations if needed)