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Types of Strength: help people to know, use and maximise their strengths

It is hard for anyone to feel capable if they are not 1. Focus on altering tasks to make use of strengths wherever possible e,g, presenting
using their strengths on a regular basis. through video rather than writing.

For people who struggle in areas that form much of 2. Support people in discovering their strengths. Teach them to self-advocate so they
the work., college or school day (processing written become great at knowing how a task could be adapted to use their strengths and let

and spoken information, remembering, planning, people know.

prioritizing, organising), it is even more essential to 3. Celebrate the range of strengths across the ten areas of cognition shown above.
shine a light on strengths and make sure they are Take a Strength-based approach to all situations: e.g. rigidity is helpful in some

used daily. contexts – even if it is unhelpful in others.