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Deans, Beth Buckles; Guess, Carolyn – 1983
The paper describes a vocational program combining assessment and training of handicapped students through a centralized vocational assessment center, parent/student counseling, community survey of occupational opportunities, and curriculum modification and development. Three levels of assessment are conducted (prevocational skills, interests and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Secondary Education, Student Placement, Vocational Aptitude
Quinones, Wm. A. – 1985
A model public school vocational evaluation center for handicapped students is described. The model's battery of work samples and tests of vocational aptitudes, personal and social adjustment, physical capacities, and work habits are listed. In addition, observation of such work behaviors as remembering instructions, correcting errors, reacting to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Job Skills, Models, Public Education
Mori, Allen A. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1982
Comprehensive career assessment of handicapped students takes into account medical, psychoeducational, interest and aptitude information, work and job samples, and situational assessment. School-based career assessment programs are described in Texas, New York, Maryland, and Missouri. The author suggests that such programs will become vital parts…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills, Program Descriptions
Strum, Irene; And Others – 1987
An important component of vocational assessment for handicapped children from kindergarten through adolescence is the measurement of interests. Direct measurements of interests generally provide inadequate information, because of the linear relationship between expressed interests and personal experiences and language development. In indirect…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Cultural Context, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Engleman, Marcia A. – 1984
This manual describes a process by which the pooling of resources, appropriate analyses, and utilization of vocational programs and personnel can be combined to provide a reasoned approach to the assessment of the training and employment potential of handicapped individuals. Section I begins with a review of the program that developed assessment…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis
Bonny Eagle High School, West Buxton, ME. – 1982
The objectives and activities are described of the Vocational Investigation and Placement (VIP) Project, a demonstration model providing new methods for identification, assessment, referral, education, and placement of handicapped students. An abstract overviews rationale, objectives, procedures, and expected contribution to developing marketable…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Community Services
