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Download full textTindall, Lloyd W; And Others – 1987
This publication provides information about jobs performed in business and industry by persons with disabilities. The first section suggests ways to use the guide. Section 2 lists 70 job descriptions, each of which includes information on the following: the type of job, disability of the person performing the job, company information, job…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Resources, Employment Opportunities
Fadely, Diane C. – 1987
This guide is intended to address the many roles and functions of job coaches in various employment settings. The guide was written to assist the following groups of service providers: (1) vocational rehabilitation personnel working in rehabilitation facilities, sheltered workshops, work activity centers, or other supported work-oriented programs;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Development, Job Placement, On the Job Training
Whittier Union High School District, CA. – 1988
The Career Assessment and Placement Center is a school-to-adult-life transition program which provides vocational and independent living services to individuals with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities. A set of five manuals was prepared to assist in developing services similar to those provided by the Center. The "Operations"…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Daily Living Skills
Dent, Lillianne Massey; And Others – 1996
This paper describes a three-phase program which places students with disabilities into job sites in strip malls, enclosed malls, industrial parks, and individual businesses to prepare them for their transition to independent living. The paper explains that in phase 1 of the program students train at a different site each day; in phase 2, students…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Community Programs, Disabilities
Vera Inst. of Justice, New York, NY. – 1980
This guide explains how to establish a program of supported work that can be used to enable hard-to-employ individuals (including disabled persons, ex-offenders, and rehabilitated drug and alcohol abusers) to obtain and retain jobs. The program described is based on the following five concepts: real job assignments, graduated stress, sympathetic…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Employment Counselors
Michaels, Craig A. – 1998
Part of a series designed to provide practical resources for transition personnel on a variety of topics critical to the process of preparing individuals with disabilities for adulthood, this guide focuses on transition to employment. Chapter 1, "Employment and Students with Disabilities," discusses the meaning of work in American…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Rademacher, Ida; Bear, Marshall; Conway, Maureen – 2001
Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) was begun in 1992 to provide unemployed and working poor residents of San Antonio, Texas, with employment training and job placement services. The program provides tuition subsidies and ancillary support services to low-income San Antonio residents enrolled in two-year associate's degree…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Associate Degrees, Basic Skills, Case Studies
