The Open Sky Functional Skills Assessment process is unique. Individuals may have a good sense of their ‘academic’ strengths and challenges following high school, but perhaps not a clear sense of what barriers may exist that are preventing them from getting or keeping a job, being reliable in independent living, or being able to maintain good social relationships.
This assessment process is aimed at identifying the gaps in practical skills that prevent an individual from accomplishing what they wish in life and work. It ‘tests’ various abilities, such as following verbal directions, working with numbers, working with money, carrying out a sequence of activities, selecting answers from a complicated presentation, nuanced social skills – the kinds of skills that may be invisible to others, except when specifically examined.