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Download full textHuman Development Institute, 2024
This manual was designed primarily for use by people with disabilities. The hope is that it is also useful for families, as well as service coordinators and providers who directly assist families and individuals with disabilities. The focus of this manual is to provide easy-to-read information about available resources, and to provide immediate…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Children, Health Services, Resources
Human Development Institute, 2022
This manual was designed primarily for use by people with disabilities. The hope is that it is also useful for families, as well as service coordinators and providers who directly assist families and individuals with disabilities. The focus of this manual is to provide easy-to-read information about available resources, and to provide immediate…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities, Children, Health Services
Human Development Institute, 2019
This manual was designed primarily for use by individuals with developmental disabilities and related conditions. It is hoped that it is also useful for families, as well as service coordinators and providers who directly assist families and individuals with developmental disabilities. The focus of this manual is to provide easy-to-read…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities, Children, Health Services
Human Development Institute, 2016
This manual was designed primarily for use by individuals with developmental disabilities and related conditions. It is hoped that it is also useful for families, as well as service coordinators and providers who directly assist families and individuals with developmental disabilities. The focus of this manual is to provide easy-to-read…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities, Guides, Children
Seta, Julie, Comp. – 1989
The compendium presents a view of 70 programs participating in the Illinois supported employment initiative. A preliminary chapter analyzes the implementation of supported employment in Illinois. It provides a brief history of the Illinois supported employment initiative, describes the Illinois Supported Employment Project, examines the impact of…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedMurphy, Stephen T.; Rogan, Patricia M.; Handley, Mary; Kincaid, Charles; Royce-Davis, Joanna – Mental Retardation, 2002
A study investigated the circumstances and views of 16 individuals 8 years after participation in one agency's conversion from a sheltered workshop to an exclusively community employment service. Most participants associated the agency's changeover with long-term, personal benefits, including community employment opportunities, increased income,…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Employment, Employment Opportunities
Butterworth, John; Gilmore, Dana S.; Kiernan, William E.; Schalock, Robert – 1999
This monograph summarizes national and state level changes in employment patterns for individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. It presents longitudinal data from state mental retardation/developmental disability (MR/DD) agencies covering 8 years between FY88 and FY96, and for federal/state vocational rehabilitation…
Descriptors: Adults, Change Strategies, Data Analysis, Employment
Petty, Debra Martin; And Others – 1991
The report presents six papers describing a Tennessee study to assess the status of the supported employment initiative, determine the importance and implementation of best practice elements, and ascertain perceptions of supported employment customers toward implementation. Major findings include the following: at the time of the study supported…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
