Below are some useful links and tools that the team has put together to help you learn more about how to prepare for adult life and the skills you may need.
- The Skills for Independence Toolkit will help you think about the types of skills that you might need for adulthood. It is a useful way to track your progress in learning new skills, record achievements and recognise things that you may find more challenging. It can also help you to navigate the transitions between services. This could mean moving from school to college, moving between social care and health services or even finding your own place to live.
- Decision-making toolkit – this document, produced by the Council for Disabled Children, supports young people’s decision-making with practical tools and a best-interest decision-making tool.
- The Developing Independence Checklist leaflet is a visual tool using small drawings and symbols to explain some of the skills that you might need to develop when preparing for adult life.
- The Preparing for Adulthood Core Handout provides a summary of things that you need to consider as you prepare to start adult life. These will also be given to you by adulthood social workers at review meetings.
- National Preparing for Adulthood website – Preparing for Adulthood is a national organisation that works to ensure that young people with SEND achieve paid employment, independent living, good health, friendships, relationships and community inclusion.
- The Intensive Assessment and Treatment Team can provide specialist health support for people with learning disabilities and their families.
- The Learning Disability Devon website contains useful information about preparing for adulthood in an easy read format.
- Devon Information and Advice Service (DiAS) has a dedicated team offering legally based and easily accessible information and advice about special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). They support parents, carers, children and young people with SEND and our service is impartial and confidential.
- Dimensions for Autism is a group based in Devon that supports adults on the autistic spectrum who do not have a learning disability. They’ve produced a guide to services for autistic adults, their families, friends and carers.