Helping Persons with Severe Mental Retardation Get and Keep Employment
Helping Persons with Severe Mental Retardation Get and Keep Employment

Author: M. Sherril Moon

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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Supported employment has greatly changed the work histories and vocational outcomes of thousands of persons with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. Unfortunately, many programs exclude those individuals supported employment was designed to assist. Many individuals with severe mental retardation have difficulty finding and keeping employment due to their mental disability ; the persence of interfering, challenging behaviors ; and/or other disabling conditions. This hands-on resource provides explicit strategies, based on extensive field testing and use in community job training, for addressing issues and methods in supported employment for persons with functional, severe, or profound mental retardation. Essential to employment specialists, special educators, and vocational program managers, this field-tested guide supplies : - employment outcomes appropriate for persons with severe mental retardation ; - steps and activities required to develop a situational assessment site ; - strategies for job development, finding an employment niche, and selling supported employment services ; - steps to employ in job-site training to include orienation, skill acquisition, and performance stabilization ; - advocacy guidelines for maintaining competitive employment. Included are implementation guidelines, illustrative graphs and charts, sample letters, forms, and checklists - all designed to enhance the employability of persons with severe mental retardation.

Mothers in the Fatherland
Mothers in the Fatherland

Author: Claudia Koonz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 1136213805

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From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women – as followers, victims and resisters – in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution to the understanding of women’s status, culpability, resistance and victimisation at all levels of German society, and a record of astonishing ironies and paradoxical morality, of compromise and courage, of submission and survival.

Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability
Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability

Author: Karrie A. Shogren

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 731

ISBN-13: 1317566238

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The Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability provides an integrated, transdisciplinary overview of research-based practices for teaching students with intellectual disability. This comprehensive volume emphasizes education across life stages, from early intervention in schools through the transition to adulthood, and highlights major educational and support needs of children and youth with intellectual disability. The implications of history, recent research, and existing information are positioned to systematically advance new practices and explore promising possibilities in the field. Driven by the collaboration of accomplished, nationally recognized professionals of varied approaches and philosophies, the book emphasizes practices that have been shown to be effective through multiple methodologies, so as to help readers select interventions based on the evidence of their effectiveness.

Successful Transition Programs
Successful Transition Programs

Author: John McDonnell

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2009-02-27

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1506331661

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This book is available to instructors and students in an electronic version! Addressing the full range of curricular and instructional issues that face professionals working in middle school, high school, and post-high school programs, Successful Transition Programs: Pathways for Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Second Edition is the most relevant text available for teachers and administrators. Authors John McDonnell and Michael L. Hardman take the position that the most effective transition programs are those that cumulatively build on the capacity of students for employment, community living, and citizenship. Key Features and Benefits Covers systematic transition planning, employment preparation, participation in the general education curriculum, instruction in community settings, and preparing students to live as independently as possible Aligns with recommended practice in the field and with federal legislation governing educational and community service programs Contains ecological curriculum models for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities Includes focus review questions, real-life example windows, and point/counterpoint boxes from key researchers on controversial issues to help readers connect the book′s concepts with the typical needs of students

Mental Retardation
Mental Retardation

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-08-09

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0309083230

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Current estimates suggest that between one and three percent of people living in the United States will receive a diagnosis of mental retardation. Mental retardation, a condition characterized by deficits in intellectual capabilities and adaptive behavior, can be particularly hard to diagnose in the mild range of the disability. The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides income support and medical benefits to individuals with cognitive limitations who experience significant problems in their ability to perform work and may therefore be in need of governmental support. Addressing the concern that SSA's current procedures are consistent with current scientific and professional practices, this book evaluates the process used by SSA to determine eligibility for these benefits. It examines the adequacy of the SSA definition of mental retardation and its current procedures for assessing intellectual capabilities, discusses adaptive behavior and its assessment, advises on ways to combine intellectual and adaptive assessment to provide a complete profile of an individual's capabilities, and clarifies ways to differentiate mental retardation from other conditions.

Providing Employment Support for People with Long-term Mental Illness
Providing Employment Support for People with Long-term Mental Illness

Author: Laurie Howton Ford

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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More than ever before, people with mental illness want to be able to secure and sustain meaningful employment in their communities. Providing Employment Support for People with Long-Term Mental Illness: Choices, Resources, and Practical Strategies provides the proven techniques and useful information needed to help people with mental illness become part of the nation's work force. Offering probing discussion of mental illness as well as valuable insight into the "ins and outs" of seeking and maintaining competitive work, this comprehensive handbook addresses vital concerns such as vocational assessment and career development; family involvement in vocational planning; social skills and behavior management; crisis intervention; and workers' rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Filled with illustrative case studies and reproducible forms and checklists, this informative volume is essential for all who support workers with mental illness, including job development and placement specialists, supported employment professionals, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and mental health practitioners.