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Direct linkAhmet Bilal Özbek; Alev Girli – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
The aim of this study was to investigate the transition of employees with intellectual disabilities to inclusive work environments from sheltered workplaces. The study was conducted in a sheltered workplace in Turkey for people with intellectual disabilities. Data was collected from 71 participants in interviews. Interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Sheltered Workshops, Intellectual Disability, Employees, Family Attitudes
Download full textCannella-Malone, Helen I.; Schaefer, John M. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2017
Although an important part of adult life, individuals with significant disabilities experience low rates of gainful employment. The purpose of this review was to summarize and analyze the literature on teaching vocational skills to individuals with significant disabilities. Sixty-two articles (with 75 experiments) included in this review were…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Severe Disabilities, Vocational Education, Job Training
Jurado de los Santos, Pedro; Costa, Rebeca Soler – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
The work presented is part of a study that the research group CIFO (Research Team in Training for the Labour Market, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona) has carried out, relating to the training needs analysis and basic competences and skills in the environment of sheltered employment centres (SECs) in Catalonia (this study was…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Sheltered Workshops, Foreign Countries, Educational Needs
Cimera, Robert Evert; Wehman, Paul; West, Michael; Burgess, Sloane – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
This study investigated whether sheltered workshops help prepare individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for competitive employment within the community. Two groups of individuals were compared: (a) 215 supported employees who were in sheltered workshops prior to entering supported employment and (b) 215 supported employees who were not in…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Employees, Autism, Sheltered Workshops
Peer reviewedQuinones, William A. – Mental Retardation, 1978
The study involving 61 moderately retarded Ss (16-41 years old) was designed to develop a battery of tests that would predict the vocational competency of moderately retarded Ss in a sheltered workshop program. (SBH)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedMartella, Ronald C.; And Others – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1992
A two-stage problem-solving strategy involving cue cards and their gradual withdrawal was used to teach nine sheltered workshop employees how to prevent work-related accidents. Results indicated that participants used the strategy appropriately and generalized their skills to similar and dissimilar situations up to eight weeks after training.…
Descriptors: Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Job Skills, Maintenance
Peer reviewedMcCuller, Glen L.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1987
Development of generalized job initiative skills was examined with three severely retarded adult males through discrimination training, role play, and self-monitoring interventions. Although intensive training was required to establish an initial set of generalized job initiative responses, subsequent sets of responses were rapidly learned using…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Generalization, Job Performance
Rehabilitation Services Administration (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1974
Presented are six articles on residential living, vocational education, employment recreation, deinstitutionalization, and workshop experience of mentally retarded children and adults. K. Grunewald discusses the planning of housing for five- to eight person groups of retarded children and adults in varying kinds of residential facilities in Sweden…
Descriptors: Employment, Evaluation, Exceptional Child Education, Exceptional Child Services
Inge, Katherine J.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
Twenty mentally retarded individuals placed in competitive employment were compared to a matched group in sheltered workshop settings concerning their quality of life. The competitively employed individuals experienced greater advancement; improved hand strength and weight control; and increased community participation, social vocational skills,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Career Change, Citizen Participation
