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Download full textWoods, James; And Others – 1985
The manual describes the Focus Expanded Placement Process, an approach to implementing training programs in sheltered work centers. Trainers are offered solutions to common problems, with sections on the following topics: breaking down initial resistance to training; individualizing training; creating a learning atmosphere; making training…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment, Job Placement, Job Skills
Tracy, Keith M. – 1979
A Study investigated skill training, job placement, and follow-up services for the vocationally handicapped of sheltered workshops in Utah. Two questionnaires were developed, one to ascertain pertinent data about clients from the sixteen workshops of Utah and the other from the placed clients, for validation purposes. All but one workshop…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Disabilities, Job Placement, Job Skills
Hansen, Cheryl L., Ed.; Haring, Norris G., Ed. – 1980
Seven papers examine issues in vocational education for the moderately to severely handicapped. The first paper, "Introduction: Perspectives on Vocational Education" and "Rehabilitation for the Handicapped" by C. Hansen and N. Haring sets out terms and definitions and provides an overview for the text. C. Hansen's second paper,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Job Placement
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1977
Presented are results from a survey of 2,530 sheltered workshop programs serving handicapped persons. Initial sections review the historical development of workshops, federal regulations affecting workshops, and previous related studies. Data are provided on the following topics: characteristics of workshops and clients (including a table on…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment, Federal Legislation
Botterbusch, Karl F. – 1978
The purpose of this guide is to provide procedures, ideas, and examples that will insure the successful use of job sites to the evaluator who chooses to use job site evaluation to assess client potential outside of the rehabilitation facility. The first part gives some very precise reasons for and examples of the different uses of job site…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment Potential, Field Tests
Horn, Adelaide; Drury, Stephen – 1980
This handbook stresses those components that are considered peripheral to the placement process but that must precede the actual placement. The philosophy of placement upon which this guide is based appears first. Discussions follow of the basic components of the process of training and placement of handicapped individuals, including a varied…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disabilities, Job Analysis, Job Placement
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
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
Portland School District, OR. Special Education Dept. – 1968
Secondary level special education classes and the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) cooperated in a program of vocational preparation, job placement and followup. Of the 336 educable mentally retarded student referrals, 149 did not become clients because of inadequate potential (30%), satisfactory job placements (32%), student or…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Counselor Role, Demonstration Programs, Employment Potential
Transitioning Vocational Services: An Exemplary Vocational Program Serving Youth with Special Needs.
Coyle-Williams, Maureen – TASPP Brief, 1991
Transitioning Vocational Services (TVS) meets the career exploration, training, and placement requirements of students with special needs in Illinois High School Districts 211 and 214. It serves students enrolled in special education who require assistance with the transition to postsecondary training and/or employment. TVS targets wards of the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
