ERIC Number: EJ1340673
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
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Speaking Center Consultants' Potentiality as Community Job Coaches for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Salah, Abby
Communication Center Journal, v7 n1 p124-126 2021
Peacehaven Community Farm, a sustainable living community in North Carolina whose mission is to connect adults with disabilities to the greater community, launched a job training program to assist in the acquisition of necessary skills to get a job. In the summer of 2019, Peacehaven Community Farm piloted an early version of their program entitled Julian and Friends, which aimed to train four to five adults with disabilities throughout a 10 week program. The curriculum in this programming centers around communication competencies, interview preparedness, and farming-related skills given the nature of Peacehaven Community Farm. Professionals from the community are invited to speak to the participants and provide mock interviews at the beginning of the 10 weeks and again at the end of the 10 weeks to evaluate growth. Each participant has a "job coach" who is their designated partner to help guide them through their activities and tasks. The participants are awarded certificates of completion at the end of the program and the hope is that they are able to obtain jobs as an end result. This article examines how Speaking Center consultants by nature are equipped to be community job coaches in programming for adults with intellectual and developmental disabiltiies (IDD). In the same manner consultants are trained to lead their peers to find the answers, they are a natural fit to do this in job development curriculum for adults with IDD.
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Job Training, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Coaching (Performance), Adults, Job Skills, Community Programs
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: North Carolina
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