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Explore general resources that identify neurodivergent talent and strengths.
Identify your specific skills and interest to support you in exploring careers or majors.
Continue your professional development to enhance your skill set and knowledge.
Neurodivergent Talent
Genius Within CIC is a social enterprise established by Dr Nancy Doyle in 2011 to help neurominorities unlock their talents, whilst acknowledging and celebrating that this diversity forms part of the rich tapestry of human experience.
“Focus on strengths: Supporting people who experience difficulties at work”
Chapter 2 | British Psychological Society | Psychology at Work: Improving Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workplace .
Interests & Skill Assessments
Spiky Profile
Complete a spiky profile to understand your strengths, identify your career opportunities, and gain clarity about your learning difference.
The “spiky profile” is a visual representation of personal and work-related strengths and areas for development. Unlike psychometric testing, the aim of the spiky profile is to promote inclusivity rather than exclusivity.
People with a neurodivergence are more likely to perform highly in some areas, and lower in others. This means that their “skill profile” looks “spiky” with peaks and valleys, rather than a consistent ‘middle ground’.
The purpose of completing the spiky cognitive profile is to identify factors that may impact your personal career journey, to play to your strengths and develop in other areas.
You may wish to share your spiky profile with employers. The results will not directly impact your chance of employment, but will help your employer understand your strengths and areas for development.
INTEREST & Skill Assessments through o*net online
Your skills describe what you like to do and what you are good at. You develop skills by training and experience that improve your ability to do tasks. Check out these resources to help you identify your skills and find the kinds of work they relate to:
Get started with this free Interest Assessment. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, to help determine your interests as they relate to work. It’s nicely color-coded as well. Hang in there, this one is 60 questions. Then you'll get a list of careers that might be a good fit for your interests.
Have some work experience? Use mySkills myFuture to see types of careers your skills and experience will transfer to.
Skills Matcher helps you identify your skills, create a list of your skills, and match them to careers that use those skills. Rate your levels on 40 key workplace skills. We’ll show you careers that match your ratings.
O*NET will match occupations to your strongest skills
Mind Tools - Essential Skills for an Excellent Career
Mind Tools is one of the world’s most popular digital, on-demand career and management learning solutions, helping more than 24 million* people each year.
Our wide range of high-quality, practical, on-demand resources can help you to become an effective and inspirational manager and leader – whether you're new to the job or have years of experience.
State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies
Vocational assessments can be administered by your state’s Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) office by a vocational rehabilitation counselor.
StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
StrengthsFinder 2.0, Amazon's bestselling nonfiction book of all time, will change the way you look at yourself - and the world around you. Designed for individuals, teams, managers and leaders, StrengthsFinder 2.0 introduces you to the power and potential of strengths
Enhance your skills
Free Online Coursework
SN Inclusion
Learn today, work tomorrow. Preparing neurodivergent individuals for a passionate career through integrated career-technical education. SN Inclusion is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All courses and services are free.
Be Your Best Academy
Be Your Best Academy develops lessons, readings, activities to expand our students' minds, to give them skills to think critically and engage in their world... while also supporting their neuro-divergence.
Our curriculum:
Created in entirety by neurodivergent professionals;
The language we use is conversational, inclusive and strengths-focused;
Equity features at the centre of our work, with lived experience quotes given place and activities provided to aid reflective practice;
A strong arm of research underpins lesson plans;
Learning outcomes are based in skills-development and self-efficacy.
Coursera
Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums. When you complete a course, you’ll receive a sharable electronic Course Certificate.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy [non-profit] offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. We focus on skill mastery to help learners establish strong foundations, so there's no limit to what they can learn next!
Communication Skill Resources
VIRTUAL SPEECH © 2019 VirtualSpeech Ltd.
VirtualSpeech is an award-winning soft skills training platform, with a focus on communication skills such as public speaking, sales, and leadership.
Practice your soft skills in over 40 virtual reality environments. Receive instant feedback on your performance so you can identify areas to improve.
[$] Follow short classes led by expert instructors and then practice what you've learned with interactive exercises. Improve up to 4x faster with this hands-on approach.
[free] A VR auditorium where you can practice presentations and learn to overcome your fear of public speaking by addressing a virtual audience. Bring your own presentation (in PDF format) and use the clicker and microphone to practice your speech until you feel ready for the real thing.
Check out their Blog for advice, research and insights to help you improve business and soft skills, including communication, interview, leadership, interpersonal and presentations.
Young Adults will learn about: developing and maintaining friendships; conversational skills; entering and exiting conversations; appropriate use of humor; electronic communication; dating skills; organizing get-togethers; handling direct and indirect bullying, disagreements, and dating pressure
College Students with ASD - program teaching employment-related skills: building a resume; interviewing skills; Finding a good career fit; navigating the work environment; stress management and executive function; conflict resolution
SUCCEEDSOCIALLY.COM
SucceedSocially.com is a free guide on social skills and overcoming shyness and insecurities for adults and older teenagers. Its focus is on helping people who feel behind in their communication skills, confidence, and friendships catch up in those areas. It's written by Chris MacLeod, MSW, a counselor who had his own struggles with social awkwardness, anxiety, and loneliness.
COVERS THE CORE SOCIAL SKILLS TROUBLE AREAS, SUCH AS:
SECOND LIFE™ © 2019 Linden Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Explore and connect with interesting people from all over the world.
“findings suggest that the virtual reality platform [Second Life™] is a promising tool for improving social skills, cognition, and functioning in autism”