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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
McCarthy, Walter – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1976
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills, 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
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1977
Presented are results from a survey of 2,530 sheltered workshop programs serving handicapped persons. Initial sections review the historical development of workshops, federal regulations affecting workshops, and previous related studies. Data are provided on the following topics: characteristics of workshops and clients (including a table on…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment, Federal Legislation
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)
