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Hutchinson, David; And Others – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1975
A work orientation unit for handicapped persons is located in a British College and promotes vocational, educational and recreational skill learning. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Employment, Exceptional Child Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textGehm, Fred O., Ed. – 1972
Presented are the proceedings of a special study institute whose primary purpose was to acquaint leaders in special education with the prevocational and vocational training of trainable mentally retarded (TMR) adolescents and young adults in sheltered workshops. Institute workshops are said to have considered the following topics: prevocational…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Journal of Emotional Education, 1973
Article described the PBX workshop, a forum for behavior evaluation that facilitates the personal growth of its participants. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Administration, Communication (Thought Transfer), Emotional Development, Positive Reinforcement
Huber, Dennis J. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1973
Students at a residential school for the blind are provided part-time work experience for a small stipend in the sheltered workshop operated by an agency for the blind. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, High School Students, Program Descriptions, Sheltered Workshops
Kenny, Jerome E.; Walker, Wayne – Pointer, 1974
Outlined is an occupational training program designed to teach work skills in different settings to trainable mentally retarded students 16- to 21-years-old. (CL)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Program Descriptions
Dever, Richard B. – 1987
This paper is a product of Project COMPETE, a service demonstration project undertaken for the purpose of developing and validating a model and training sequence to improve transition services for moderately, severely, and profoundly retarded youth. The paper reports on a study which surveyed 58 parents of moderately, severely, and profoundly…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Expectation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Durand, John; And Others – School Shop, 1973
Describes the program of the Occupational Training Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. (SB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Job Placement
Peer reviewedKraemer, Bonnie R.; Blacher, Jan – Mental Retardation, 2001
A study involving 52 families with transition-age students with severe mental retardation found that schools are providing a variety of transition instruction; parents' ideal views of vocational outcomes are not always consistent with their realistic views; the majority of exited students are working in segregated environments; and there is high…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Outcomes of Education, Parent Attitudes, Secondary Education
Brown, Lou; And Others – 1983
The paper criticizes the practice of providing sheltered occupational environments to severely handicapped individuals and considers ways in which public school programs and adult service systems can be arranged to maximize vocational functioning. Following an operational definition of meaningful work, the chapter analyzes reasons for the…
Descriptors: Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Employment
GADLIN, WALTER; AND OTHERS – 1966
A NATIONWIDE QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYED 490 SHELTERED WORKSHOPS SERVING THE EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED. LISTINGS BY STATES OF SUCH CENTERS PROVIDE ADDRESSES, REFERRAL SOURCES, AGE RANGE OF CLIENTS, YEAR PROGRAMS BEGAN, NUMBER OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CLIENTS DAILY, NUMBER OF EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CLIENTS DAILY, AND TYPES OF EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED.…
Descriptors: Catalogs, Disadvantaged, Emotional Disturbances, Mental Retardation
Lowitt, Julian – 1973
In the rehabilitation workshop there is insufficient attention to job development oriented to the current and future needs of industry. Many types of work which were done in vocational workshops in contract from industrial firms are now done by automation. Semiskilled labor is thus in diminished demand. There is a twenty year lag in the industrial…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Industrial Education, Industry
Peer reviewedKirby, Neil – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1986
A review of problems faced by sheltered workshops for disabled persons (low placement rates in open employment, nonconsideration of individual needs, poor financial rewards) includes an outline of a habilitation model featuring improved staff training, production and wages, vocational and nonvocational options, organization of training, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Needs, Futures (of Society), Job Training
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
Caddick, James W. – 1979
This manual for supervisors of rehabilitation workshops or plants focuses on knowledge, techniques, and application of work simplification and production standards. Four chapters providing introductory material discuss common goals of rehabilitation and production and human factors. The first of seven chapters (chapter 5) on work simplification…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Efficiency, Flow Charts
