The handbook provides adult educators and other professionals with a comprehensive knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of adults with autism, suitable jobs and positions, labour market opportunities, appropriate educational and career paths and learning preferences, enabling them to develop and deliver effective, individualised and attractive training, activation and counselling services for adults with autism.

The TALENT ASD training package contains a curriculum describing the programme’s objectives and learning outcomes, resources and methods, specific benchmarks, assessment and certification, the structure, duration and description of the training sessions. An individualised training programme will be developed for adults with ASD that aims to further strengthen/develop their employment competencies and soft skills. It will also include sessions on their rights at work and stress management at work, based on case studies, pictograms, and other visual aids, non-formal exercises, educational games, and simulations, all adapted to the learning programme of the target group and scientific data to promote learning and active participation in learning.

The training programme and course curriculum for adult educators enables the development of their capacities, facilitates the further use of the results and increases their competence to provide individual activation, counselling and training services to adults with autism. It ensures that interested adult educators have the opportunity to train on the topic, better understand the learning profiles of adults with autism, familiarise themselves with effective training methods, acquire/improve their competences in providing individually tailored and meaningful activation, counselling and training services to adults with autism and become certified for the acquired knowledge.

The empowerment cycles that put the activation, counselling and training programme into practice increase learners’ motivation and counteract their fears of contact, improve their ability to make targeted vocational and educational choices, deepen their understanding of their rights in the labour market, familiarise them with methods of coping with stress in the workplace and strengthen key employment competences and soft skills so that they are much better prepared to enter and succeed in the labour market. At the same time, they provide the adult educators and staff of the participating organisations with practical experience that contributes significantly to their employability in the field.