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Download full textBrown, 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
Burroughes, Tony – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1974
Successful integration of mentally handicapped workers from an adult training center into community employment involves sympathetic management attitudes, adequate task training and supervision, and competence in such skills as self-care, mobility, handling money and recognizing various public signs. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Exceptional Child Services, Job Skills, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedOudenne, William – Mental Retardation, 1974
The article describes two relatively uncomplicated methods of reducing resident labor in public institutions for the mentally retarded and the successful pursuit of this goal in New Jersey State institutions. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Employment, Exceptional Child Services
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
Wallin, J. E. Wallace – J Genet Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Ross, E. Clarke – Word from Washington Analysis, 1980
The report discusses public policy issues affecting services to the disabled. Aspects covered include umbrella versus categorical service organization, independent living, independent living services, deinstitutionalization and the unions, utilizing Medicaid for 24 hour residential services, national health insurance, financing home services and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Federal Legislation
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
Soloyanis, George – 1978
The paper presents 24 suggestions for the employment of mentally handicapped individuals. Each suggestion is described briefly and considerations or actions are posed as applicable. Among opportunities listed are free labor market status plus additional support, selective placement, quota system (requiring a percentage of those hired be…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Job Development, Mental Retardation, Rehabilitation Programs
National Association of Sheltered Workshops and Homebound Programs, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1966
Source material for the establishment and maintenance of sheltered workshop programs is arranged in chronological order. Aspects described include planning considerations, how to get started, program of services, operating the workshop, personnel, state and federal labor laws, workshop standards, and the future of the workshop. Appendixes provide…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Guides, Adults, Disabilities
Stubbins, Joseph, Comp.; Hadley, Robert G., Comp. – 1967
The bibliography lists 114 annotated entries on workshops for the handicapped. Although some items date back to 1963, most are from 1966 and 1967. Research, project, and conference reports are cited as well as program descriptions and other varied publications. The three previous issues of this bibliography on workshops contain abstracts of items…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Disabilities, Exceptional Child Services
de Csipkes, Robert A.; Rowe, Wayne – 1967
The influence of type of residence, institution or community, on the direction and/or realism of vocational interest was investigated using 60 sheltered workshop-employed, mentally retarded young adults. The Picture Interest Inventory was used as the measure of vocational interest. Statistical analysis of cell means indicated that the…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Comparative Analysis, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Fry, Ronald R., Ed. – 1974
This annotated bibliography covers literature on work evaluation and adjustment for the period 1947 to 1973. The 801 entries include articles, speeches, research and demonstration reports, and unpublished papers related to work evaluation and work adjustment. Many of the entries concern the vocational evaluation of the physically and mentally…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Counseling, Employment Services, Evaluation
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
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1973
This report covers the proceedings of a hearing on the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a bill to authorize grants for vocational rehabilitation services. A discussion of funding, state and federal responsibilities, grants, administration, evaluation, and the establishment of an Office for the Handicapped ensues. The bill calls for research, training,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
Szyarto, Ruth; And Others – Rehabilitation Literature, 1976
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances
