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Increasing Work Skills for Students with Significant Disabilities: A Six-Step Model for Transition Worksite Programs
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Choiseul-Praslin, Belkis; McConnell, Amber – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2020
Students with significant disabilities typically experience poor postschool employment outcomes. However, when provided opportunities to work and engage within their communities, they can gain necessary work-specific and workplace social skills to improve outcomes. This article outlines a six-step model for community-based employment programs…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Students with Disabilities, Severe Disabilities, Individualized Transition Plans
Adolescents in Community Settings: What Is to Be Learned?
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Hamilton, Stephen F. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1981
Discusses a study undertaken to evaluate the influence of two community learning programs on the adolescent participants. Topics discussed include differences in staff roles in the programs, program characteristics, learning outcomes, and participant attitudes. Findings indicated that, in general, youth liked the community programs and learned a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
A Model Career Education Program for Gifted Disadvantaged Students.
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Moore, Barbara A. – Roeper Review, 1979
The article describes a model career exploration program, the Professional Career Exploration Program for Minority and/or Low Income Gifted and Talented Students, which was created as a tenth-grade community exploration program. Sections address the multistage process used to identify disadvantaged gifted students, the inclass seminars for student…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
The Local Business Community: A Natural Resource for Transition from School to Work.
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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
On-the-Job Training: A Curricular Approach to Employment.
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Kohler, Paula D. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1994
This study assessed the effects of a Brevard County (Florida) high school-based vocational training and community-based on-the-job training program called Brevard's Exceptional Students in Transition (BEST). Results indicated positive improvements in vocational skills and behaviors of participants in the BEST program. (JDD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Education, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Live-In Training Experience (LITE). A Transition Program for Youth with Disabilities.
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Sands, Deanna J.; And Others – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1995
A program was implemented to provide a community-based living and work experience for students with mild/moderate mental retardation making the transition from high school to adult life. The program focuses on independent living skills, vocational education, and functional academic instruction. It incorporates shared resources, community-based…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Community Programs, Daily Living Skills, Education Work Relationship