A model for employability development is introduced to improve employability assessment and planning programs in rehabilitation and educational settings. The major components of an employability assessment and planning program are vocational choice, job acquisition, and job retention. The model offers strategies for empowering the consumer and…

This participant's workbook is one component of an instructional package designed to aid in developing a model employability assessment and planning program for use in rehabilitation and education of persons with disabilities. "An Employability Development Model," outlines the career development and employability development process, major…

This instructor's guide is one component of an instructional package designed to develop an employability assessment and planning program for use with individuals with disabilities. The instructor's guide outlines the content of the program designed to train preservice or inservice rehabilitation specialists or educators in program development.…

This resource manual is one component of an instructional package designed to develop an employability assessment and planning program for use with individuals with disabilities. The resource materials are designed to be used as handouts or as overheads in providing program development training to preservice or inservice rehabilitation specialists…

This document, developed by the Ninth Institute on Rehabilitation Issues Prime Study Group on Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), is intended to provide basic information and guidelines to state agencies for implementing meaningful services to SLD clients. The publication is organized into five sections, with each section divided into…

This volume on vocational assessment is written from an educational and psychological perspective and includes descriptions of program models appropriate for implementation within school settings. The book focuses on cooperation among a variety of school-based professionals; incorporates the roles of community-based professionals and parents; and…

This monograph outlines a model procedure for developing and running a community vocational transition center that would assist workers in making various planned and unplanned vocational transitions throughout their lives by offering a comprehensive array of vocational assessment and transition services. The first chapter addresses the question of…

This report examines various vocational rehabilitation models that serve American Indians and Alaska Natives with disabilities, with examples and case studies to demonstrate how the models work in real client-counselor situations. Stressed throughout is the importance of issues of cultural diversity, cultural competency, and self-determination.…

A National conference was held to examine State policies and practices for helping disabled youth make the school-to-work transition more successfully. The focus of the first day of the conference was on transitional programs currently in existence in Maryland, Michigan, and New York. The first part of the second day's activities involved the…