Transition to Adulthood: Workplace Readiness and Soft Skills for Special Needs
Soft skills are often invisible until a student is missing them. This guide turns workplace readiness into clear, practical lessons for students heading into a first job, a work-based placement or life after high school.
What's Inside
- Soft Skills: communication, teamwork, time management, problem-solving, work ethic and adaptability
- Real-World Situations: receiving feedback, learning from mistakes, punctuality and asking for help or accommodations
- Job Search Skills: resume, cover letter, interviews and first impressions
- Self-Advocacy and Accommodations: ADA rights, disclosure decisions and scripts for requesting accommodations
- Managing Stress and Emotions: calming strategies and handling anger, anxiety and sadness professionally
- Goal Setting: SMART goals, an eight-step process and example goals across career, financial, independent living and personal areas
- Quick Reference Checklist: every major workplace readiness skill
How It Helps You
- Connects directly to IEP transition goals
- Pulls career readiness, self-advocacy and life skills into one guide
- Easy to adapt to reading level and pacing
Ways to Use It
Teach it as a full unit, pull sections for targeted lessons, assign pages for independent practice or use it for small group discussion and role play.
Who It's For
Special education teachers, transition specialists and job coaches working with students in grades 7 through 12 and beyond.
Format
PDF (print-ready) and DOCX (editable). Instant download.
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