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Guy, Barbara A.; Knowlton, H. Earle – Diagnostique, 1987
The case study of a young male adult with moderate to severe handicapping conditions used naturalistic inquiry procedures including interviews and observations of home, community, and employment settings. Decisions had been influenced by personal and cultural values of the participants and reflected a lack of informed choices, miscommunication,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Services, Decision Making, Family Environment
Development of a Community Based Pre-Employment Program for Moderately and Severely Retarded Adults.
Hill, Janet W.; And Others – Rehabilitation Literature, 1979
The article describes the design and implementation of a community-based training program for mentally retarded adults. The program focuses on job preparation, training, and placement, with a secondary emphasis on functional independent living skills. (PHR)
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Job Placement, Job Training
Download full textSchalock, Robert L. – 1983
The paper describes a system used in Nebraska in which vocational rehabilitation specialists determine who is a high need client and develop programs via a social-ecological or "person-environment" perspective. A high need client is defined as an individual who will require considerable staff support, intervention, and time. A three-phase study…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Daily Living Skills, Mental Retardation
Saint Joseph's School for the Blind, Jersey City, NJ. – 1981
St. Joseph's School for the Blind (Jersey City, New Jersey) cooperated with the Occupational Center of Hudson County to establish a model transitional prevocational training program for severely multiply handicapped, visually impaired students. The aim was to assist these student to move from a school environment to a work activity setting where…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Skills, Job Training
[ESC-20 Community-Based Services Work Adjustment Program; Community-Based Work Training Curriculum.]
Dildy, Dennis R. – 1987
The Community-Based Services Work Adjustment Program provides vocational assessment, work adjustment training, social adjustment training, extended sheltered employment, transitional/supported employment, and competitive job training and placement through on-the-job training at natural community work sites. The program serves mentally retarded,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Curriculum, Disabilities, Job Placement
Ogren, Evelyn H.; Lauricella, John – 1981
The special employment program in Yooralla Society of Victoria (Australia) began operation two decades ago with establishment of sheltered workshops. As part of an overall review of Yooralla's programs, a survey was conducted as a first stage in evaluation of the workshops--Ability Industries and Ability Press. The aim of the research project was…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Hettinga, Claudia A.-M. – 1991
As part of two research projects on schools for the mentally retarded and their employment possibilities, this report describes the regular and special education systems in the Netherlands, examines the situation of adults who attended the special schools, and discusses segregative circumstances in the Netherlands. The first chapter provides an…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Education, Day Care, Disabilities
Rockwell, Phyllis E. – 1995
This publication proposes a three-part program that combines English as a second language (ESL) and vocational considerations to move non-English speaking inmates from the ESL classroom through a sheltered vocational education classroom into the hands-on aspect of the carpentry trade. The first two sections present two requirements for the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Building Trades, Carpentry
Gordon, Elizabeth; Zamule, Elisabeth – 1986
This report discusses sheltered workshop programming and high school-level vocational training for mentally retarded (MR) individuals in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Sheltered workshops conducted by Goodwill Industries and Parc-way Industries were examined to determine client characteristics and the rate of placement in competitive employment.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Choice, High Schools, Job Placement
Peer reviewedSchalock, Robert L.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1993
The current status of state mental retardation/developmental disability agency information systems related to day and employment programs for persons with disabilities is described. Data regarding the number and characteristics of persons served in various day-employment programs and the funding sources are summarized. Suggestions regarding data…
Descriptors: Agencies, Data Collection, Database Design, Day Programs
J.M. Foundation, New York, NY. – 1990
This publication provides information on 1989 winners of the Search for Excellence award for outstanding vocational service programs for people with disabilities. A history and description of the search appears first. A winner and two finalists are described in each of four categories. An introduction to each category discusses typical applicant…
Descriptors: Awards, Community Colleges, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Tennessee State Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Nashville. – 1976
Presented is the 1976 annual report of a project to prepare profoundly and severely retarded adults for sheltered employment, thus qualifying them for low-level group home placement. The history of the project is traced and program goals (such as refinement of toileting, dressing, and eating skills) are reported in chapter I. In chapter II, the 26…
Descriptors: Adults, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Demography, Exceptional Child Education
Sitlington, Patricia L.; And Others – 1991
The parents of 14 Iowa individuals with severe/profound mental disabilities were interviewed 1 and 3 years after their sons/daughters graduated from or "aged out" of high school. Two categories of information were sought concerning the adult adjustment of these individuals: (1) general status variables including marital status, place of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Employment, High Schools, Income
O'Shea, Dorothy J.; And Others – 1988
The project provided vocational training to four deaf/blind profoundly mentally handicapped, secondary students at the Monarch Center School Board of Alachua County in Gainesville, Florida. The training program was designed to develop the students' potential work and work-related skills and utilized a daily evaluation system to guide instructional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Deaf Blind, Diagnostic Teaching, Instructional Effectiveness
A Sheltered Work Experience Centered Vocational Curriculum for Low Achieving Students. Final Report.
Dickson, Elizabeth – 1973
The purpose of the Sylacauga, Alabama, exemplary program, reported for the period from July 1, 1970 to June 30, 1973, was to demonstrate practices found effective for working with socioeconomically disadvantaged and other dropout-prone students. Program objectives were to provide: (1) student counseling services to help appraise interests,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Counseling, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs
