Life Skills for Uni
For many young people, university involves managing more things at once than they have ever had to manage before: the academic work, the practicalities of running a living space, money, food, an unfamiliar social world, and the unsettling feeling that the adults who usually knew what to do are no longer immediately on hand. For neurodivergent young people, that accumulation can be the hardest transition of all because a great deal of the support they have been relying on, often without either party quite realising it, is no longer in place.
Life Skills for Uni is a practical preparation programme designed to get ahead of that. We take each area separately, look honestly at where your young person already has things in hand and where the gaps are, and build something workable before they need it.
What does the programme cover?
The five areas we work through are study and time management; keeping a living space in reasonable order; food and money (including the executive function dimension of cooking on a student budget—shopping lists, using what's in the fridge, not living on toast by week three); knowing what to do and who to contact when something goes wrong; and the social side of student life, including freshers' week, communal living, making friends when the old context has gone, and recognising when more support is needed.
How much time we spend on each area depends on the individual. Some young people have the domestic side already sorted and need more time on the emotional and social preparation; others are the reverse.
What does it cost?
£625
This covers five flexible hours of one-to-one session time, bespoke resources and materials created for your young person, and check-ins between sessions.