Building Emotional Intelligence
When the listener observes what the speaker is communicating through verbal and non-verbal body language.
Active Listening
The limits you set to protect your personal space, feelings, and needs and to define how others can treat you.
Boundaries
Changes made to the way tasks are performed or how you access information without changing what is expected of you.
Accommodations
Being real, not fake or copied
Authentic
Believing in yourself and your abilities.
Confidence
Able to adjust to new situations.
Adaptability
When someone encourages or pressures you to do something, even if you don't want to.
Direct Peer Pressure
A plan developed by a team of people to help individuals with disabilities meet goals beyond their current ability.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Believing in yourself because you are aware of your own strengths and abilities.
Confidence
The mental image or opinion a person forms of you, especially when meeting you for the first time.
Impression
Confidently expressing your thoughts, feelings, and needs while respecting others.
Assertiveness
A belief in improving oneself through effort, learning, and not giving up
Growth Mindset
The action of representing one’s own views and interests or making others aware of your needs.
Self-Advocacy
Abilities and skills that you learn through practice, repetition, and education.
Hard Skills
The ability to recover quickly from difficulties or overcome barriers
Resilience
Working together with people to achieve a shared goal
Collaboration
When you feel the need to do something because others around you are doing it.
Indirect Peer Pressure
A knowledge and understanding of your own personality or individuality.
Self-Awareness
Qualities or skills you develop that relate to how you work and interact with others.
Soft Skills
A knowledge and understanding of your own personality or individuality.
Self-Awareness
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
Empathy
The things that you personally feel are important in life.
Values
The freedom to make your own decisions and control your own life.
Self-Determination
Skills that transfer from one environment to another.
Transferable Skills
The combination of your skills, strengths, interests, and values that you present to others.
Personal Brand