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Peer reviewedWolffe, Karen E.; Candela, Tony; Johnson, Gil – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2003
This article details the qualitative results of focus groups with adults who are visually impaired and received assistive technology (AT) training (n=55) and with AT trainers (n=48). Participants described the state of AT training at the beginning of the 21st century from their perspectives as students and teachers. (Contains 4 references.)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Assistive Technology, Focus Groups
Peer reviewedKiran, Swathi; Thompson, Cynthia K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003
Four patients with fluent aphasia received a semantic feature treatment to improve naming of either typical or atypical items within semantic categories. Patients trained on naming of atypical exemplars demonstrated generalization to naming of intermediate and typical items. Patients trained on typical items demonstrated no generalized naming…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Aphasia, Generalization
Peer reviewedFernandez, Samuel; Kovari, Janos; Vulterini, Paola; Williams, Val – British Journal of Special Education, 2002
This article discusses a partnership among professionals in Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Hungary to construct a useful learning tool for adults with learning difficulties. It describes development of the training needs scale that includes units in three main educational areas: social work skills, new technologies, and European…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Design
Peer reviewedConley, Ronald W. – Mental Retardation, 2003
A survey of 49 Maryland service providers offering vocational services found the weekly earnings of persons placed in supported employment were 3.5 times the earning of persons employed on the premises of the service provider. Nevertheless, there was strong evidence that substantial improvements are needed, and possible, in supported employment.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Disabilities, Employment Opportunities
Florida State Office of Volunteerism, Tallahassee. – 1980
Designed to help public and private agencies organize a successful volunteer program, this guide begins with a discussion of the development of successful management techniques for use in the planning, implementation, and operation of volunteer services. Elements of structuring volunteer objectives, developing agency rationale for volunteer…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Administrator Responsibility, Adult Education
Maurer, Lisa – 1991
This guide is intended to assist caregivers of people with development disabilities in acquiring knowledge about sexuality and skill in expressing sexuality in a safe and appropriate manner. Section 1 provides an overview of the history of sexuality and developmentally disabled individuals. The second section provides exercises for the caregiver…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults
