Skills matching.

Supports needed

Skills needed Personality characteristic

s needed

Shared common interests

With managing money.Making new relationships.Cooking hot meals.Using public transport.

Cooking traditional English food.Managing money.

Patient.Does not mind having their leg pulled.Extravert.

Hiking.Football, Leeds United supporter

Before you start work on the grid –

It may be useful for you to do a circle of support and/or a gifts poster for the person with learning difficulties you are going to be thinking about.

Other things to think about, What is important to the personWhat’s important for the personWho does the person enjoy spending time with, who gives them a good day?What characteristics do the people they like have?Are there any people the person does not like, what is it about them they don’t like, what characteristics are common to people they don’t like?

When you have spent sometime discussing these, complete the grid

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