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Direct linkCannella-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
McGinnity, Betsy L. – 1983
Project ADVANCE currently provides vocational training to 26 deaf-blind adolescents and young adults attending Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. The project has developed community work sites in four different vocational options: (1) competitive employment, (2) a student operated small business, (3) sheltered enclave within…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Resources, Deaf Blind, Employment
Rafter, Patrick – Pointer, 1975
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Job Skills, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
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
Olson, Robert L., Ed.; And Others – 1981
Intended for teachers of deaf/blind and severely handicapped students, the manual focuses on teaching skills to meet the requirements for sheltered and transcommunity employment. The first section presents two approaches to teaching independent living skills (including grooming and self care). Section 2 describes orientation and mobility skills…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Deaf Blind, Individualized Education Programs, 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
Parmenter, Trevor R. – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1976
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Career Counseling, Career Development, Employment Potential
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
Barrett, Patricia L.; Schwerdt, Alan – 1981
The prevocational skills checklist is designed to be used as a continuous recordkeeping instrument on a severely handicapped student. Objectives of the checklist are to identify student competency level in prevocational skills; to identify areas where the student is lacking in basic vocational competencies; to provide educators with a competency…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Check Lists, Cognitive Development, Day Care Centers
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
Campbell, John L.; O'Toole, Richard
All major types of disabilities were represented in the Work Adjustment Program at the Cleveland Vocational Guidance and Rehabilitation Services (VGRS). During the five year project it successfully placed in competitive employment three-fourths of the 300 clients who had previously been unemployable and untrainable. The report describes the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Counseling, Counselor Role, Disabilities
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
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
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