WORKPLACE SKILLS: working in a cafe or restaurant.

by Hairy Mary

Price: 800 points or $8 USD

Subjects: specialed,specialAdults,lifeSkills,adultSpeech,socialAspectsOfCommunication,Special Autism,communicationSkills

Grades: 0

Description: Program that target’s communication skills used in café/restaurants: i. reading body language and facial expressions in order to infer other people’s feelings or make choices about the right time to approach or avoid interacting with people. ii. making inferences and predictions about past or future events iii. identifying another person’s point of view and thinking about what someone else might be thinking (theory of mind) iv. practice verbal communication skills such as making judgements about what is an appropriate or inappropriate thing to say in customer service, understanding idioms and jargon used in everyday speech v. problem solving tasks to try and work out the best solution to an event in the workplace. The person I created this program for is a teenager who started work experience program in a restaurant. This work experience program is part of his transition from school to the work environment. He is leaving school at the end of the year so we don't have a lot of time to establish the skills he needs to thrive in the workplace. zCVB aqw34He has an Autism diagnosis and struggles to read the room, see another person's point of view or communicate in a way that is consistent with good customer service. This program is being used to establish specific cafe/restaurant interaction/communication skills and his Support worker will help to applying this knowledge to real life tasks in the workplace.