Talking Mats - Careers, Work and Employment
Talking Mats - Careers, Work and Employment
A visual framework that uses specifically designed communication symbols to help people organise their thoughts when discussing a particular topic and supports them to express their views on relevant issues.
Set Includes
Readiness for Work
This topic helps explore the thinker’s readiness for work in terms of their health and well being and includes options such as; travelling, coping with sensory environments, support networks.
Skills
This topic allows the thinker to consider their capability to work. It deals with concrete skills such as talking on the phone and working with numbers, and more abstract abilities such as taking initiative and being enterprising.
Preferences
This topic explores how important different types of work are to a person, for example being self-employed, being part of a big company, working indoors and working outdoors. It helps the thinker see how their beliefs and values might fit in the workplace.
