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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
Cheong, Loh Sau; Yahya, Sharifah Zainiyah Syed – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
One of the major goals in the education and training of individuals with special needs is to prepare them for independence. However, in the Malaysian context, parents who have special adolescents are in doubt as to what would be the future of their children soon after they have finished the vocational training. This case study explores the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Secondary School Students, Special Education Teachers, Parents
Stodden, Robert A. – 1983
The paper reviews problems in the sheltered workshop concept and proposes a change of focus in the provision of occupational life preparatory services for individuals with severe disabilities. Among problems cited are a lack of efficient production and training technologies, a lack of trained community placement personnel, and a general lack of…
Descriptors: Adults, Prevocational Education, Severe Disabilities, Sheltered Workshops
Richterman, Harold – Disabled USA, 1982
Discusses National Industries for the Blind which was established in 1938 as a result of the Wagner-O'Day Act. National Industries serves the vocational needs of multihandicapped blind people. (Availability: Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20401) (JOW)
Descriptors: Blindness, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential, Multiple Disabilities
Kozlowski, Ronald E.; And Others – 1984
The third in a series of position papers regarding deinstitutionalization of individuals with developmental disabilities in Ohio, the paper addresses future directions in adult services. Basic planning principles guiding the delivery of services are briefly reviewed, followed by a list of five objectives of adult programs. The next section…
Descriptors: Adults, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities, Models
J.M. Foundation, New York, NY. – 1986
This document explains the process by which the J. M. Foundation selected vocational programs for the disabled that would be designated as "excellent" and describes the programs selected. Applications for the designation were evaluated on benefits to clients, program productivity, client severity, and the quality of materials included with the…
Descriptors: Awards, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Sheltered Workshops
Bellamy, G. Thomas; And Others – 1977
The efficiency of training severely retarded adults in sheltered workshops with frequent changes of specific jobs can be increased through an "operations" approach. The approach focuses on teaching workers to respond correctly to cues frequently used in vocational training, such as modeling or priming the response, or providing match to sample…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Severe Disabilities
Vencill, Mary; Youngdahl, Andrea – Exceptional Parent, 1987
Boatworks, a subsidiary of Stepping Stones Growth Center in Oakland, California, provides work experience to developmentally disabled persons and helps them learn skills useful in private sector jobs. Workers learn job responsibility, quality control, and work safety procedures and are paid according to productivity. (CB)
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Sheltered Workshops, Supported Employment
Bellamy, G. Thomas; And Others – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1975
Reported are data regarding the work performance and production data of three institutionalized severely and profoundly retarded adults who were taught to perform small parts assembly work. (CL)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Severe Disabilities, Severe Mental Retardation
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
PERKINS, DOROTHY C.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THESE 126 ANNOTATIONS ARE THE THIRD VOLUME OF A CONTINUING SERIES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES LISTING ARTICLES APPEARING IN JOURNALS AND CONFERENCE, RESEARCH, AND PROJECT REPORTS. LISTINGS INCLUDE TESTS, TEST RESULTS, STAFF TRAINING PROGRAMS, GUIDES FOR COUNSELORS AND TEACHERS, AND ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING, AND RELATE TO THE MENTALLY RETARDED, EMOTIONALLY…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Programs, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies
Agran, Martin; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1987
A social skills training program using self-instruction to facilitate the acquisition and generalization of two social behaviors in the work setting effectively increased the percentages of occurrence of target behaviors for five mentally retarded employees working in a sheltered workshop. The training generalized across work settings. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adults, Interpersonal Competence, Mental Retardation, Sheltered Workshops
Peer reviewedHershenson, David B.; Langbauer, William R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1973
A scale was constructed to test Hershenson's 1968 formulation that in vocational development, self-differentiation precedes competence, which precedes independence, which in turn precedes commitment. Staff ratings on scale items related to each stage were made on 222 clients in a deaf rehabilitation project, who were divided into high- and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance, Individual Counseling
Peer reviewedDardig, Jill C.; Jewett, Robert J. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1979
The article describes the efforts of Project PATH (Progressive Approach to Training and Habilitation) to design a comprehensive training program for moderately and severely retarded adults in a sheltered workshop setting. (SBH)
Descriptors: Adults, Computers, Data Collection, Moderate Mental Retardation
Gilbertson, Alan D. – 1982
This publication is intended to help production staff understand (1) what job specifications are, (2) why written specifications are important, and (3) what is involved with documenting specifications. A definition of job specifications is followed by a discussion of the importance of and necessity for such specifications as regards the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Contracts, Disabilities, Manufacturing
