Suchergebnisse

Recognizing work experiences as indispensable educational tools / Richard G. Luecking and Kelli Thuli Crane -- Setting the stage for quality work experiences -- Planning for work experiences / Richard G. Luecking, Amy Dwyre D'Agati, and Marie Parker Harvey -- Navigating work experience and disability disclosure -- Supporting families to support work experience / Richard G. Luecking and Amy Dwyre D'Agati -- Finding workplace partners : strategies for recruiting employers -- Retaining workplace partners : strategies for ensuring effective employer participation -- Supporting youth in the workplace -- Facilitating workplace mentorship for youth workers / Richard G. Luecking and Meredith Gramlich -- Connecting with professional and agency partners to foster and sustain work -- Pursuing quality work-based learning experiences.

The amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) in 2004 reiterate the significance of producing real postsecondary education, employment, and independent living outcomes. However, current employment data continue to show widespread unemployment and very limited access to inclusive community environments and services for adults with severe intellectual disabilities. On the contrary, data from the Transition Service Integration Model (N. J. Certo et al., 2003) demonstrate that these recalcitrant problems could be attenuated if two changes are implemented: The transition from school to adulthood components of IDEIA be strengthened to explicitly authorize school districts to subcontract with appropriate private agencies at the point of transition to produce direct-hire, individualized employment and adult living outcomes and that the federal government amend the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act to provide an entitlement to long-term support, creating a service system which parallels the functions of IDEIA after school exit.

What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities todayâ€"and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the lives of people with severe disabilities; explore necessary reforms to policy and practice; and set clear goals and priorities for improving early intervention, education, health care, behavior suppor