Soft skills have been identified as being imperative to the transition of students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) into post-school employment. Extensive literature references the potential for outdoor education to facilitate the development of such skills. Despite this, minimal research had been conducted into whether an outdoor education event could be used as a tool for the development of the soft skills of students with ASD. Research was therefore conducted using a case study approach with six students who had recently attended an outdoor education event. It was found that students perceived themselves to have gained the following soft skills: communication, team work, problem solving and leadership. Additionally, it was found that the retrospective reflection on the outdoor education event that was facilitated by questionnaires, focus groups and photo-elicitation had a positive impact on the students’ ability to appreciate the soft skills that they had developed.
