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Download full textMcGinnity, 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
Gehm, 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
Gold, Marc W. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1974
Thirty-six mildly and moderately retarded sheltered workshop adolescent and adult clients learned to assemble a 12-piece unit for which the parts were color coded. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills, Mental Retardation
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)
Shawnee Hills Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center, Inc., Charleston, WV. – 1983
Descriptions of several programs of the Shawnee Hills Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center, Inc. (Charleston, West Virginia) are presented. Included in this document are: (1) a description of the Shawnee Hills Day Training Center, a cooperative program of Shawnee Hills and several county school boards for severely/profoundly impaired…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advertising, Children, Daily Living Skills
PRENTICE, GEORGE R. – 1966
THIS PROJECT WAS DESIGNED TO INCREASE PARENT PARTICIPATION IN THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OF ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULT MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS, TO DEVELOP METHODS OF MOTIVATING PARENTS TO PARTICIPATE, AND TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT PARTICIPATION AND THE RETARDATE'S VOCATIONAL ADJUSTMENT. DURING THE FIRST YEAR,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Family Influence, Job Placement
Griffiths, Matthew; And Others – 1989
The study described in the first part of this two-part document identified the kind of ongoing support that would be most beneficial to all those concerned in the employment of young people with disabilities in England and Wales. Semistructured interviews were conducted with employers, representatives of preparation and placement agencies, and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adolescents, Advocacy, Agency Cooperation
