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HOW TO WORK TOGETHERAn important aspect of independent living is home-based and consumer-directed care. This multimedia training is a timely solution to increasing demand for consumer-managed home care workers.Instructors, independent living centers or health and human service agencies that provide Personal Assistant Services use this training package to recruit, train and maintain personal assistants and other non-medical home caregivers.
Your future is open. Although people with disabilities often face barriers moving into the world of work, many do succeed. Many discover exciting jobs inspired by their interests and abilities.This program encourages young people to set high expectations and take steps to meet those expectations.This video program will introduce you to dozens of people with disabilities who describe how they found their paths to successful careers and why they love their jobs.The Role Models in the Open Futures videos inspire young people to explore careers and follow their dreams.
This manual is intended primarily to assist individuals with disabilities to advance towards more satisfying and meaningful career opportunities. It is ideal for rehabilitation, career and employment service providers of all types and the consumers they serve. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of career advancement and can be used to structure a planned sequence of activities that together constitute a comprehensive approach.The reproducible worksheets help customize a persons career advancement efforts.
“Everybody has a future,” Ed Roberts said. Ed Roberts, considered the “father” of independent living, meant it, he lived it, and helped others achieve it. Self-proclaimed cripple, catalyst, and cosmic thinker, Ed Roberts was all of these as he built a life for himself as a person with polio, then laid the foundation for millions of other people with disabilities to build their own lives. This video will draw inspiration as it features excerpts from a speech delivered at a 1981 independent living conference.
The skills needed for successful transition are multifaceted. School and community based personnel can use the instruments in Informal Assessments for Transition: Independent Living and Community Participation to obtain data in these critical planning areas:
• Communication
• Interpersonal Skills
• Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination
• Daily Living Skills
• Health
• Community Participation
• Leisure
Job Coaching is a concise, goal oriented staff development program. The manual follows the chronology of a successful job placement – from getting to know your client to maintaining employer relations. The manual features real-life examples to illustrate techniques and strategies and provides useful forms, like functional assessments and work site analysis. 132 pages. 2003
Richard Bolles’s famous What Color is Your Parachute? has helped millions of readers find their path in life, and now his “Creative Approach to Job-Hunting” is brought to bear on the specific challenges faced by job hunters with disabilities. In Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped Bolles and Dale Susan Brown guide readers through the often-frustrating but ultimately rewarding process of securing independence in their lives and personal satisfaction in their careers.
Just in time for the implementation of new IDEA regulations, this fourth edition of a landmark text brings together the most up-to-date, comprehensive information on facilitating transitions for young people with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities. Teaming with the best-known researchers in the fields of employment, transition, postsecondary education, disability, and special education, internationally recognized authority Paul Wehman has thoroughly updated the entire book with the latest theoretical information and practical guidance.
There are 1.7 million regular wheelchair users in the United States. Disability awareness and advocacy is extending throughout the world, as people choose to be active and independent. Technology is advancing, attitudes are changing, government regulations have been enacted, and as a result, things that were thought impossible for those in wheelchairs only ten years ago are possible today. Life on Wheels offers wheelchair users a road map to living life to the fullest.
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