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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
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
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
Button, William H. – 1967
This report has presented information regarding the average level of wages paid in a sample of 123 workshops. Many complex influences affect a workshop's wage practice. This was illustrated in the brief analysis of association between a workshop's wage level and disability, business characteristics, job structure, and client characteristics. It is…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Disabilities, Job Skills, Job Training
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
Olcott, Lynn – 1981
This booklet, prepared for the Peace Corps, describes the operation of the Volunteer Rehabilitation Project, a handicraft project for handicapped persons (mostly leprosy patients) in Ethiopia. Along with the project description are step-by-step instructions for carrying out a similar project and a discussion of the principles underlying the…
Descriptors: Craft Workers, Developing Nations, Disabilities, Educational Facilities
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
