For many families, the questions shift as a child moves into adolescence and young adulthood. A diagnosis that once explained a child’s early challenges eventually gives way to a more practical, forward-looking questions: what can my child actually do independently, in a work-like setting, and what kind of role or pathway genuinely suits their strengths? This is a functional and vocational question, not a diagnostic one, and it deserves its own screening rather than being folded into an assessment built for identifying difficulty.

The Vocational Readiness Screening looks at the practical skills that shape how a young person functions in a work environment including how they manage multi-step tasks and instructions, how they sustain attention and follow through, how they communicate and collaborate in workplace-like social settings, how they tolerate the sensory demands of a typical work environment, and where their genuine interests and strengths lie. The intent is deliberately strengths-based that exists to build a picture of what a young person can do and where they will thrive, not to catalogue limitations.

The output is framed for pastoral and career guidance rather than as a clinical finding, and is designed to support real conversations about post-school pathways (whether that is open employment, supported employment, further training, or a structured day program) grounded in an accurate picture of the young person’s functional strengths rather than assumptions based on diagnosis alone.