Transition Survival 102: Principal Skills to Assess & Learn for Successful Transition
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Planning adult life involves deciding which everyday skills need attention first. In this recording, Michele LaMarche examines communication, household routines, work habits and community participation for autistic adolescents and adults, connecting individual assessment with task analysis and practice in the settings where skills will be used.
Presenter biographies: Michele LaMarche.
LaMarche moves through laundry, cooking, phone use, transportation, housing and money management. Her laundry example examines a missed distinction between detergent and fabric softener, showing how a familiar routine can contain an unassessed component.
The later discussion considers learning history, repetition and prompting needs when prioritizing skills. It also examines role play followed by practice in actual settings, visual checklists and college preparation, including self-advocacy and daily supports.
What does this recording cover?
- The communication discussion distinguishes knowing a skill from using it reliably to ask for help or clarification.
- The laundry example examines detergent discrimination within a larger household routine.
- The discussion of learning history considers acquisition rate, repetition and prompting requirements.
- The discussion of teaching strategies connects role play with practice across people, examples and actual settings.
- The college preparation block addresses self-advocacy, disability services, workload, housing and daily supports.
Recording context: The recording date is unavailable, and the technology discussion includes a historical Myspace reference.
Three selected learner comments
The six-item evaluation mean was 4.31/5 across 27 complete responses, from 191 recorded rating responses. This mean includes only complete six-score responses. Source: Special Learning's course evaluation records, snapshot October 11, 2026.
Three selected anonymous responses appear below, with the wording and spelling retained. They describe learners' experiences and requests; they are not a guarantee of results or a claim that these comments represent every learner.
No. I loved this presentation
Course evaluation response, 2023
fix the audio glitches, it happened on 2 occasions
Course evaluation response, 2023
Having more disabilities/populations represented other than individuals with ASD
Course evaluation response, 2024
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Meet the Presenters
Ms. Cynthia Ring is a Licensed Social Worker and holds a B.S. in Psychology and a M.S.W. Cynthia is currently working on a Doctorate in Forensic Psychology. Cynthia plans to work on getting a BCBA in January of 2012. Current projects and interests include transitions to employment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the criminal justice system, recidivism, functions of violent behavior/aggression, and sports and recreational programs for people with disabilities.
Cynthia is currently employed as a social worker and director of the day habilitation services at Step By Step Academy in Worthington, Ohio. She has been serving individuals with autism and their families since 2006.
Michele LaMarche is the co-founder of Special Learning, Inc. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Step By Step Academy (SBSA), a centre-based non-profit autism treatment centre in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. LaMarche has worked in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for more than fifteen years, and she develops the ABA curricula used in SBSA's programs.
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