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Direct Support in Supported Employment and Its Relation to Job Typicalness, Coworker Involvement, and Employment Outcomes.
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Mank, David; Cioffi, Andrea; Yovanoff, Paul – Mental Retardation, 2000
This study investigated the possibility that high levels of direct support in supported employment programs are associated with less typicalness, integration, and wages. The study found that wage and integration outcomes can be increased, even if there is a high level of direct support, if there is coworker training. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employees, Social Integration
Gender Differences in Supported Employment.
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Olson, Deborah; Cioffi, Andrea; Yovanoff, Paul; Mank, David – Mental Retardation, 2000
This study examined existing data on 561 individuals with disabilities receiving supported employment services to evaluate questions about gender equity. It found that, although women were perceived as being generally more socially appropriate, they usually worked in jobs traditionally stereotyped by gender. Women also worked fewer hours than did…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Sex Bias
Patterns of Support for Employees with Severe Disabilities.
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Mank, David; Cioffi, Andrea; Yovanoff, Paul – Mental Retardation, 1997
This study investigated the use of "natural supports" in the workplace in tandem with supported employment services for employees with severe disabilities. Analysis of data from 462 people in eight states on how "typical" the individual's employment setting was found that incorporating "typical" employment features in workplaces was associated…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Practices, Quality of Working Life, Severe Disabilities
Employment Outcomes for People with Severe Disabilities: Opportunities for Improvement.
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Mank, David; Cioffi, Andrea; Yovanoff, Paul – Mental Retardation, 1998
A survey of 13 vocational programs that used natural supports as one of their strategies for securing and supporting people with disabilities in community jobs found that people with more severe disabilities had fewer wage- and integration-outcomes and fewer typical features of employment compared to those with less severe disabilities. (CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Community Programs, Employment Problems
Supported Employment Outcomes across a Decade: Is There Evidence of Improvement in the Quality of Implementation?
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Mank, David; Cioffi, Andrea; Yovanoff, Paul – Mental Retardation, 2003
Data from 13 supported employment programs and 680 employees with developmental disabilities show little or no increase in wages or hours outcomes for people in jobs acquired in the late 1990s compared to the early 1990s. There are, however, improvements in the typical features of job acquisition, roles, and orientation. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Job Placement
Do Social Systems Really Change? Retrospective Interviews with State-Supported Employment Systems-Change Projectors.
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Mank, David; Buckley, Jay; Cioffi, Andrea; Dean, Joyce – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1996
Describes the results of telephone interviews with 10 former directors of state systems-change projects focused on supported employment in the context of the rapid growth of supported-employment programs for people with severe disabilities. Results are discussed in terms of the ongoing nature of dynamic change in social systems. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adults, Change Agents, Change Strategies