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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
The planning part of the brain is the last to finish growing, and it keeps developing well into the twenties. Eighteen is a legal age rather than a developmental one.
This is worth saying plainly in a family where someone is being asked why they cannot just be responsible now. Nobody expects a fourteen year old to…
With attention difficulties the organising side often runs a few years behind the birthday. A nineteen year old may be running life more like a sixteen year old, and that is a lag rather than a verdict.
Set expectations against where someone actually is instead of what year they were born in. That way the support that felt normal at school does not…
If a year out is coming, call it a bridge rather than a gap. A gap is a hole in a record. A bridge is going somewhere.
That word will be repeated at every family gathering for twelve months, so it is worth choosing carefully. A bridge year has a direction and an end,…
University is one route, not the route. Saying so only helps if you can name the others, so find out what actually exists before you have the conversation.
Apprenticeships, supported employment schemes, part time study, a trade, working while doing one course at a time. In many places there are publicly…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Pick the place that will actually hold the person, not the one with the better name on the letterhead. Three years somewhere that fits beats one term somewhere that does not.
Ask concrete questions before anyone commits. Who notices when a student stops turning up. How are adjustments actually arranged, and by whom. How…