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Peer reviewedMcGee, David W. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1981
Fifteen learning disabled secondary students participated in resource room activities that stressed completing employment applications, looking for employment ads in newspapers, and role playing a job interview. Seventy percent of the class found gainful employment without assistance from outside sources. (CL)
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Interviews, High Schools, Job Application
Stamm, Martin L., Ed. – 1980
The purpose of this guidebook is to give students, parents, and teachers some direction in helping middle and high school students find employment during their secondary school years. Suggestions for specific jobs where employers are sensitive to the needs of students who have experienced learning disabilities are made. Sources of information…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Employment Interviews, Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications
Zambrano, Laura C. – Academic Therapy, 1988
This article examines the role of the vocational counselor in the job-seeking process for learning-disabled adults. It covers assessment of clients' interests and abilities and matching with job opportunities; teaching of job-seeking skills; use of volunteer jobs to assess clients' work habits; job-hunting procedures; and dealing with work…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Counselor Role, Employment Opportunities
Download full textHoy, Cheri A.; Gregg, K. Noel – 1985
This manual, the final document in a series, is intended to help adult education teachers help learning disabled (LD) students function in the world of work. The need for adults to develop personal-social and daily living skills along with the ability to adjust to the pluralistic nature of society is stressed. An approach to identifying strengths…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Career Development, Career Guidance
Vermont Univ., Burlington. Dept. of Special Education, Social Work and Social Services. – 1989
This document presents the final report with two attachments: a teacher training guide; and the curriculum guide for the Job Club Project, a job search curriculum for non-college bound high school students with and without learning disabilities. The study used a post-test, control group design with a total of 162 students (90 in the experimental…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Curriculum, Education Work Relationship, Employment Interviews
Washburn, Winifred – 1994
This updated and expanded edition of a 1-year course on how to get a job and hold it, aimed at students with learning disabilities and their teachers, includes five teaching units: (1) vocational academics (mathematics, letter writing, telephone techniques); (2) vocational resources (responding to classified advertisements in newspapers, Social…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Course Content
