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Download full textReisner, Elizabeth R.; Balasubramaniam, Meena – 1989
A study examined the circumstances underlying the school-to-work transition problems of disadvantaged youth and strategies that school systems in Detroit, Pensacola (Florida), New Castle (Indiana), and Pittsburgh have adopted to address these problems. Among the problems studied were lack of information about jobs and careers, too few role models…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Coll. of Education. – 1989
This module regarding support services available for special needs students in vocational education programs in Missouri identifies the following support personnel: vocational resource educators; basic skills instructors; special needs counselors, counselors and placement specialists; vocational evaluators; supplemental teachers; vocational…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Deaf Interpreting, Job Placement, Pupil Personnel Services
Markowicz, Arlene, Ed.; And Others – NAB Clearinghouse Quarterly, 1985
This issue focuses on helping disabled individuals to find and keep jobs. An overview discusses the corporate response to employment of the disabled, partnerships between industry and rehabilitation, serving disabled persons under the Job Training Partnership Act, and educating students with disabilities. Eleven "Bulletins" offer…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Counseling, Career Education
Wood, Christine T. – 1989
This case study describes the vocational education system and job training programs, especially those funded through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, in an unnamed metropolitan area of California. The data were collected as part of another larger national study of state and local response to the Perkins Act. Information was collected…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance
Davis, Jean Cary; Dickens, Ben – 1986
This guide is intended to assist instructors and administrators in improving the vocational education of special needs students by providing supplemental services that have been authorized by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Discussed in a section on the implications of the act for disadvantaged and handicapped students are…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Correctional Education, Counseling Techniques
Asselin, Susan B. – 1987
This guide is designed to help vocational education teachers prepare students with special needs to make a successful transition from school to employment. The guide is organized in five chapters. The first chapter provides a definition of transition and a model for transition from special education or vocational education to the community. In…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
