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Career > Skills Training
Pre-ETS for Students with IEPs: Workplace Skills Before Graduation
...Job exploration counseling helps students identify interests, strengths, and career pathways that match their skills. This isn't a one-time career assessment. It's ongoing counseling that evolves as your student learns what they like and what they don't. A VR counselor might arrange informational interviews...
Career > Interviewing
Skills Assessments and Work Sample Tests: Requesting Testing Accommodations
...rights under the ADA apply: Typing or data entry speed tests Timed coding assessments or technical challenges Work sample demonstrations (live presentations,...demonstrations (live presentations, mock client calls) Personality or cognitive assessments Physical agility tests for roles that don't require those specific movements...
Career > Finding Jobs
Transferable Skills Assessment: Identifying What You Bring to New Careers
...translating them into language employers recognize. What Transferable Skills Assessment Means. Transferable skills assessment is the systematic process of identifying...recognize. What Transferable Skills assessment Means. Transferable skills assessment is the systematic process of identifying abilities you've developed in...
Career > Finding Jobs
American Job Centers: Free Employment Services by State
...the general public doesn't access through standard job boards. Intensive services are available through WIOA enrollment. This includes vocational assessment, skills training...
Career > Finding Jobs
Customized Employment: Creating Jobs That Match Your Abilities
...a structured approach that identifies your strengths through a formal assessment process, matches those strengths to employer needs, and negotiates job...already have. The Discovery Process Explained. Discovery is the formal assessment phase that anchors customized employment. It typically lasts four to eight...
Career > Finding Jobs
Ticket to Work Program: Using SSA Benefits to Find Employment
...protection to try it. You don't need prior work experience. You don't need a specific job goal already identified. Career exploration and vocational assessment are part of what Employment Networks provide. What Employment Networks...
Career > Advancement
Skills Transferability: Reframing Disability Experience as Professional Assets
...positioning accommodation needs as problem-solving experience. But the professional who has requested workplace accommodations has practiced needs assessment, documentation, negotiation, and implementation, which are core project management skills. You've done the work. Now translate it. Identifying Your...
Career > Advancement
Succession Planning and Disability: Positioning Yourself as Next in Line
...happens without you in the room, and disability is the reason no one will say out loud. Succession planning in most organizations relies on informal assessment. Managers discuss potential leaders over lunch, at off-sites, in hallway conversations after meetings. If your accommodations make those spaces inaccessible,...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Wheelchair Seating Clinics: What Happens During a Seating Evaluation
...appointment is in two weeks and you don't know what to expect. A wheelchair seating evaluation isn't a standard office visit. It's a specialized assessment involving a team of professionals who measure, test, and analyze how your child's body interacts with positioning equipment. Here's what happens...
News > Technology
A Louisville Rehab Center Just Opened One of the Country's Most Advanced Assistive Technology Labs. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...isn't a single appointment. It's a documented assessment process that matches a person's functional abilities,...comprehensive evaluation typically includes: Functional assessment of the person's current abilities and challenges...to test real-world performance Environmental assessment of where the equipment will be used (home layout,...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Power Wheelchair Control Options: Joystick, Head Array, and Sip-Puff Systems Explained
...wheelchair evaluation, you might assume the joystick is the only option. It's what most people picture when they think of a power chair. But during the assessment with an Assistive Technology Professional (ATP), you'll likely hear about head arrays, sip-and-puff systems, and other control methods you didn't...
Legal > Healthcare
Healthcare Decision-Making Rights: From Consent to Guardianship Alternatives
Legal tools for healthcare decisions at age 18 transition: capacity assessment, POA, SDM, and when guardianship is necessary.