Making the Switch: Transitions, Ages 10 to Adult
$8
When game time ends with a slammed controller, or a schedule change means an hour of pacing, it isn't stubbornness. Something about the switch is hard, and it can be taught.
Warnings tell us a change is coming. They don't teach us how to make it. This guide teaches the switch itself, and it treats the person as the young adult or adult they are, with ownership of their own plan.
Written by a habilitation specialist with more than twenty years in families' homes, for families and providers of preteens, teens, and adults with developmental disabilities.
Inside this 23-page printable guide:
• What makes the switch hard, and why countdowns alone don't work
• Finish, move, begin: the routine
• Finding the natural stopping point
• Leaving a video game, ending a visit, changed plans, and chores
• Teaching them to negotiate: "I need time to save"
• Shifting responsibility to the person, a little at a time
• 4 ready-to-use habilitation goals with teaching steps
• Printables: Our Agreement, How Does It Finish? planner, and signal cards
Instant download. Print at home on letter paper. For personal use only.