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A Review of Research on Teaching People with Significant Disabilities Vocational Skills
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Cannella-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
Career and Vocational Education for the Severely Handicapped.
Barrett, Patricia – 1981
Career education is distinguished from vocational and prevocational education, and guidelines in these areas are given for educators of severely handicapped students. Prevocational activities designed to produce competencies students will need for sheltered workshop settings are presented. The activities are intended to give intermediate level…
Descriptors: Career Education, Intermediate Grades, Job Skills, Learning Activities
Evaluating the Severely Disabled: The Controlled Environmental Laboratory Evaluation
Rosinsky, Robert W. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Education, Job Skills
Prevocational Skill Development for Deaf/Blind & Severely Handicapped.
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
Expanding Opportunities: Vocational Education for the Handicapped.
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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
Prevocational Skills Checklist for Severely Handicapped. Second Edition.
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
A Survey of Vocational Education Programs for the Severely Handicapped in North Dakota.
Barta, Roberta Fair – 1981
A study was conducted to determine (1) the entry level skills that are required for admission to selected North Dakota programs for the vocational education of the severely handicapped; and (2) the articulation, if any, between nationwide prevocational training programs' exit requirements and the North Dakota programs' entry requirements. Using a…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adolescents, Adults, Articulation (Education)