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Ferris, Agnes – RE:view, 1991
A blind individual offers career education guidelines concerning helping blind children make realistic vocational choices, providing job awareness, setting up work-experience programs, and developing special job-seeking skills. (DB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Career Choice, Career Education, Education Work Relationship
Baumgart, Diane; And Others – 1987
The guide, developed by the Secondary Transition and Employment Project (STEP) in Idaho, is intended to provide students with mild, moderate, or severe handicaps with hands-on community work experience in order to determine vocational preferences and to provide instruction in work-related skills, functional academics, and job-seeking skills. Work…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, High Schools
Baumgart, Diane; Anderson, Jane – 1987
The guide, developed by the Secondary Transition and Employment Project (STEP) in Idaho, provides an overview of its sequential vocational curriculum intended to help students with mild, moderate, and severe handicaps to: (1) identify their vocational preferences and aptitudes; (2) use community resources to find out about jobs; (3) observe and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Cobb, Brian; Halloran, William; Simon, Marlene; Norman, Michael; Bourexis, Patricia – 1999
This handbook provides guidance to schools operating Community-based Vocational Education (CBVE) programs for students with disabilities and encourages the adoption of CBVE programs by schools not presently using this approach. By following the information and examples contained in this handbook, schools can proceed with confidence to operate…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Federal Legislation
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Telepak, Theodore A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1995
The Community Observation Project in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) has helped more than 100 secondary students with disabilities to learn prevocational skills and behaviors through observation and hands-on experience at 20 local businesses. Details of program implementation, including recordkeeping forms, are provided. (DB)
Descriptors: Business, Community Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
American School for the Deaf, West Hartford, CT. – 1985
A project was conducted by the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, to train deaf, multiply handicapped students in job readiness skills and to place them in work experience programs. The one-year project served 17 multiply handicapped, hearing-impaired students, 18 to 20 years old, who were enrolled in the Special Unit program…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Needs, Employment Potential, Hearing Impairments
Harrison, Jeremy; McLeish, Henry – 1987
Written for practitioners rather than policymakers, this document is intended for those who seek to relate educational and training opportunities to local and individual needs; use fresh approaches to integrated services for young people trapped by unemployment, social and economic change, and poor living conditions; and achieve high quality…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Baumgart, Diane; And Others – 1987
The guide, developed by the Secondary Transition and Employment Project (STEP) in Idaho, is intended for agency or school staff developing a community-based vocational training program for persons with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities. The guide is intended to be used with three available video tapes. The first module's goal is the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Insurance
Wagner, June G. – Keying In, 2001
This business education journal contains two articles and three class activities related to teaching business skills relevant to today's economy. The first article, "Skills for a Changing Economy," provides an overview of the skills needed in today's business environment. According to the article, as many as half of recent high school graduates…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Business Skills, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Education
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
Zambrano, Laura C. – Academic Therapy, 1988
This article examines the role of the vocational counselor in the job-seeking process for learning-disabled adults. It covers assessment of clients' interests and abilities and matching with job opportunities; teaching of job-seeking skills; use of volunteer jobs to assess clients' work habits; job-hunting procedures; and dealing with work…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Counselor Role, Employment Opportunities
Barrett, John; Lavin, Don – 1987
This guide is based on the principles and methods used at Rise, Incorporated, a sheltered workshop providing successful industry-integrated programs for handicapped persons. It is intended to serve as a model both for existing service providers who are interested in retooling their program in the direction of industrial work services and other…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Guidelines, Job Training
Dildy, Dennis R. – 1987
The Community-Based Services Work Adjustment Program provides vocational assessment, work adjustment training, social adjustment training, extended sheltered employment, transitional/supported employment, and competitive job training and placement through on-the-job training at natural community work sites. The program serves mentally retarded,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Curriculum, Disabilities, Job Placement
Affleck, James Q.; And Others – 1987
The manual, developed by the Realistic Transition Project in Washington State, reviews program experiences and recommended best practices for serving mildly handicapped students in their final years of school (ages 17-21). The project focused on employment with formal class teaching secondary to community work experience. A skills curriculum…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Interpersonal Competence, Job Search Methods
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Lund, Kathryn A.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
Job performance of disabled students can be monitored through: (1) student job reports (which emphasize self-analysis of on-the-job performance) and (2) job support groups (which focus on problem solving for employment situations). Both activities help students perceive the connection between work experience and school and help teachers intervene…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Job Performance, On the Job Training
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