Hot Topics is an eight-week educational group designed to help teens and young adults with Asperger’s and high-functioning autism develop their conversational, social and job-readiness skills.
While socializing with one another, participants explore and discuss workplace issues as well as talk with mentors who are working in jobs that group members want to know more about.
The groups are informal and offer plenty of time for participants to talk and visit with one another.
Hot Topics activities
In Hot Topics groups, we weave in structured activities and assignments, so that group members will:
- Find out about their individual learning styles
- Discover how their brains process information and jobs that would be good for their particular style
- Learn stress management techniques
- Research jobs they're interested in
- Solve work-related problems in a group
- Make a list of possible mentors with their parents
- Talk with guests working in jobs they want to know more about
- Research interesting employers
