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Download full textRaynor, Olivia; Hayward, Katharine; Francis, Wilbert; Campisi, Catherine – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2016
For several decades, institutions of higher education (IHE) have been addressing the need for postsecondary education (PSE) for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). These efforts have increased significantly since 2008 with passage of the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA). The law includes a defined set of services and activities…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Vocational Rehabilitation, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Kohler, Paula D.; Gothberg, June E.; Fowler, Catherine; Coyle, Jennifer – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: The Collaborative, 2016
Over the past three decades, transition practices research has demonstrated that post-school outcomes of students with disabilities improve when educators, families, students, and community members and organizations work together to implement a broad perspective of transition planning, more appropriately referred to as transition-focused…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Transitional Programs, Models, Program Development
Direct linkLester, Stan – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
The TRAVORS projects, supported by the European Union's Lifelong Learning Programme, ran between 2008 and 2012. Their object was to develop training programmes for disability employment practitioners across nine countries based on proven approaches both to vocational rehabilitation and to skills training. The second of the two projects aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Vocational Rehabilitation, Program Validation
Sheldon, James R., Jr.; Golden, Thomas P. – Employment and Disability Institute, 2012
The purpose of this policy and practice brief is to provide readers with a resource for planning outreach to transition-aged youth, their parents, and the service providers who work with them (i.e., the authors' "target group"). The authors will first provide a summary of the laws governing how three key agencies--school districts, state…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Adolescents, Young Adults, Outreach Programs
Redkey, Henry; White, Barbara
One of the essential services in rehabilitation centers is offered in the prevocational unit. This unit explores the client's abilities through specific activities in a variety of work experiences directed toward evaluating the client's vocational potentialities. The six major objectives of such a unit are described and organization and program…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Potential, Personnel Evaluation, Program Development
Seal, Albert G. – 1973
A former vocational rehabilitation counselor for the deaf in Louisiana recounts his experiences in initiating the state program, and discusses education of counselors for the deaf, career planning, and vocational placement of young deaf adults. Also described is the development of a special program for the deaf at Delgado College in New Orleans.…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Deafness, Exceptional Child Services, Hearing Impairments
Punke, Harold H. – Intellect, 1973
Article considered three areas of attitudes that seemed important in the relationship they have for concepts of rehabilitation. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, Program Development, Public Opinion
Peer reviewedCull, John G.; Colvin, Craig R. – Journal of Rehabilitation, 1972
Vocational rehabilitation centers need to improve both client evaluation by upgrading the role of the work evaluator and work adjustment programs with specified goals to be achieved by each individual client. (Author/AG)
Descriptors: Evaluation Needs, Program Development, Program Improvement, Rehabilitation Centers
Peer reviewedUsdane, William M. – Mental Retardation, 1969
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Exceptional Child Services, Mental Retardation
Park, Leslie D. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1979
The article reports follow-up results of a research and demonstration program undertaken by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission with 150 delinquent youths who had appeared before two juvenile courts in Massachusetts. (SBH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Demonstration Programs, Emotional Disturbances
Rubin, Stanford E.; Roessler, Richard T. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1979
The authors discuss a sequential vocational rehabilitation procedure (the Crux Model) for using evaluation data to determine appropriate vocational hypotheses and for involving the handicapped client in the rehabilitation planning process. (CL)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Conceptual Schemes, Disabilities, Models
Peer reviewedFerrell, C. Rod; Wincenciak, Sue L. – Journal of Rehabilitation, 1977
Reviews the history, development, implementation, and impact of the Model State Plan (MSP) for vocational rehabilitation of deaf clients. (TA)
Descriptors: Conferences, Deafness, Program Development, Resource Materials
National Council on Disability, 2008
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, together with the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, set in motion policy changes that have allowed many thousands of children and youth with disabilities in the United States the opportunity to gain the educational and vocational skills needed to transition to living, working, and participating as…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Employment Level, Disabilities, Young Adults
Inge, Katherine J., Ed. – RRTC, 1994
This topical newsletter focuses on ways to convert segregated day programs for people with disabilities into community integrated employment programs. Individual sections cover: common "conversion" myths and appropriate responses; a national status report on conversion; Florida's innovative use of the Medicaid waiver to fund conversion;…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Potential, Employment Programs, Program Development
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. – 1984
The Comprehensive Plan for the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) in New York State contains both long-range goals and short-term actions for the next 20 years with a series of specific actions proposed for the current 3-year (1985-87) period. The first chapter provides program background with sections on OVR'S mission, recent trends in…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Planning, Policy Formation
