Transition into Adulthood

One strategy that I am implementing with my case study, that I believe promotes skills for independent living, is the use of picture schedules to promote independence for task participation and completion. Picture schedules are utilized during activity participation as well as during self-care tasks which help to decrease Emily’s reliance on adult prompting and promote independence.


Providing Emily’s family with information regarding the correlation between social competence and vocational success, will hopefully help to encourage the family to pursue social opportunities for Emily. We have discussed the possibility of the family enrolling Emily in a summer community program to meet some of her peers that she may be going to kindergarten with. This transition into a community group, while having some support from the Early Intervention Program, may help to build positive relationships with her neighborhood peers. Building successful social interactions early in development, we have learned, helps to build motivation for continued desire to form social relationships. Again, drawing the connection between social competency and increased vocational success to help the family see yet another important outcome of social opportunities.