Although frontline supervisors are responsible for on-site management, supervision, and training of direct support professionals, research on the nature, content, and skills of the frontline supervisor role is rare. In this paper we describe results of 12 job analysis and three validation focus groups constituted to describe core competencies for…

A survey of 245 special education teacher/paraprofessional pairs found that teachers viewed clerical and supervision skills as more important than paraprofessionals' other skills. Teachers and paraprofessionals showed considerable agreement in rating the importance of skills. It appeared that paraprofessionals require different competencies…

The overall objective of this study was to assist vocational teachers and administrators in assessing the vocational aptitudes of handicapped students by conceptualizing a model. Various parts of the model included identification of diagnostic tools and measures, the job matching process, and the development of the Individual Education Program.…