
This structured PDF presentation (full lesson) is designed for teenagers and adults with ASD and executive functioning deficits. It explains why moving from one activity, place, or situation to another can be difficult, including when a routine is unexpectedly changed, and teaches practical, evidence-based strategies for stopping one activity and starting the next.
What is covered:
- What Is a Transition: a clear, literal explanation of stopping, moving, and starting
- Why Do Transitions Feel Difficult: effort, unfinished tasks, enjoyable activities, and time pressure
- Why This Can Be Harder for Individuals with ASD: predictability, cognitive flexibility, absorption in interests, unclear endings, sensory change, and slower processing of sudden requests
- The Universal Struggle: reassurance that this is a widely shared difficulty, including personality, sleep, ADHD, anxiety, and mood conditions
- What Transition Struggles Can Look Like: recognising the signs
- Examples: leaving the house, and a changed routine
- Strategies for Managing Transitions: the Two-Step Warning, the Finish Point, the Next Step Written Down, the Transition Routine, the Note to Return, and the Calm Pause
- Evidence-Based Techniques: Visual Schedules, and Priming
- Practice Scenarios and Generalised Feedback: realistic scenarios with feedback
- Practical Tips and Key Takeaways
Suitable for:
- Teenagers and adults with autism and executive functioning deficits aged 13+
- 1:1 sessions or small group work
- SEN specialists, instructors, support workers, and parents
Format: PDF presentation
Session time: Approximately 1 hour
All content uses clear, literal, and neutral language throughout. Resources are universally applicable, with no political, ideological, or religious content.
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