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Career Assessment for Adolescents with Mild Disabilities: Critical Concerns for Transition Planning.

Rojewski, Jay W. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2002
This paper addresses the theoretical and practical concerns of transition-related career assessment for adolescents with mild disabilities. It defines assessment terms and then discusses the applicability of prominent career theories. Primary career assessment areas that support the preparation of adolescents with mild disabilities are identified.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, High Schools

Sarkees-Wircenski, Michelle; Wircenski, Jerry L. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1994
A Career Portfolio approach which documents the competencies of a student with disabilities is explained. The portfolio can be used as the basis for informal vocational assessment, for development of annual and short-term objectives, for vocational counseling, and as a tool to take to job interviews. (DB)
Descriptors: Career Development, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Evaluation Methods

Elksnin, Linda; Elksnin, Nick – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1990
Teacher-parent collaborative consultation can be useful in planning appropriate vocational programs for adolescents with disabilities. Such consultation can involve informing parents of vocational opportunities, planning vocational assessment and collecting vocational information, developing vocational components of individualized education plans,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Consultation Programs, Disabilities, Educational Planning

Lombard, Richard C.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1992
A survey of 100 Wisconsin secondary schools found that students with disabilities did not use a full range of vocational programs, that only 37 percent of students had participated in vocational assessment activities, and that half had vocational goals included in their Individualized Education Programs. Results are discussed in terms of access…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Disabilities, Education Work Relationship

Gaylord-Ross, Robert – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1986
Important factors in assessing performance of handicapped individuals in transitional, supported employment include secondary school vocational performance, assessment and placement, resources for supported employment, and on-the-job performance, and the social ecology of the workplace. (CB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs