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Zawacki, Jessica M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The number of direct support professionals (DSPs) needed to support the increasing numbers of adults diagnosed with autism within the United States continues to grow exponentially. DSPs receive minimal training and often fail to generalize the training they have received, which can directly lead to poor learning outcomes for the adults they serve.…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Employees, Training
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Vella-Brodrick, Dianne; Patrick, Kent; Jacques-Hamilton, Rowan; Ng, Amanda; Chin, Tan-Chyuan; O'Connor, Meredith; Rickard, Nikki; Cross, Donna; Hattie, John – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
Co-design and youth participatory action research are promising methodologies for increasing youth engagement in well-being interventions. The current study included 10 recent high school graduates employed as youth advisors to co-design a youth-friendly positive psychology intervention targeting the post-school transition. The youth advisors…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Well Being, Intervention, Peer Influence
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Tomori, Kounosuke; Imai, Yuto; Nakama, Chiho; Ohno, Kanta; Sawada, Tatsunori; Levack, William W. M. M. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2020
Introduction: This study aimed to develop a new tablet application named the Aid for Decision-making in Occupation Choice for School (ADOC-S). It aims to assist with conducting collaborative occupation-based goal-setting by sharing decision-making with a team member (child, parent, teacher, and occupational therapist) using a consultation model of…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Goal Orientation, Participative Decision Making, Teamwork
Werdin, Carol; Mensing, Andy – 1988
A program, Team Approach to Assessment and Programming (TAPP), to provide services to deaf blind and otherwise severely handicapped students in rural areas, is described. The project was designed to increase the number of severely handicapped students being served in integrated, age-appropriate local settings by expanding the capacity of local…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Miller, Kathleen S., Ed.; And Others – 1981
Selected papers from the 1980 World Congress of Rehabilitation International Meeting on the participation of disabled people are presented. The papers address the rights of the disabled, the organization and functions of consumer groups, the impact of consumer involvement on rehabilitation and related services, social implications of the consumer…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Activism, Advocacy
Boeren, Ad, Ed.; Kater, Adri, Ed. – 1990
This book documents the experiences that were gathered in project DELSILIFE, Development of a Coordinated Educational Intervention System for Improving the Quality of Life of the Rural Poor through Self-Reliance. The project was carried out by the Regional Center for Educational Innovation and Technology (INNOTECH) for the South-East Asian…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Action, Community Education