This is a sample view of the strengths-based approach quick guidebook below to help you through this process. Remember to allow the child to initiate strengths first, and do not identify anything as a weakness/problem/trouble/issue. Start with talking about communication differences. How the youth’s way of talking or communicating is just different from his peers, etc. This is the better method especially if you are not 100% confident in what components of the youth’s language is secondary to cu