Product Description: As self-employment becomes a viable option for more and more adults with significant disabilities, give them realistic, practical guidance and support with the NEW edition of this popular guidebook. Updated with a new and improved assessment approach, more self-employment success stories, and the latest on policy changes and online opportunities, this book is your step-by-step guide to helping adults with disabilities get a small business off to a strong start...read more

Product Description: To help students with disabilities make a smooth transition from high school to adulthood, you need proven and practical strategies that prepare them for success in an increasingly complex world. You'll find more than 500 research-based, teacher-tested support strategies in The New Transition Handbook—the modern transition guide for today's students and the professionals who support them...read more

Product Description: Autism diagnoses in young children increased dramatically in the 1990s—and now those children are young adults on the verge of a challenging transition to the real world. Every school and program will be ready to help with this groundbreaking practical guide, straight from the author of the acclaimed bestseller Life Beyond the Classroom and two community-based autism experts...read more

Product Description: This groundbreaking text advances a critical element of empowwerment for people with disabilities: inclusive, competitive , and meaningful employment opportunities.

In this improved and expanded edition of a classic resource, Paul Wehman and his colleagues take a fresh look at transition, examining the persistent yet unfortunate reality that not working is perhaps the truest definition of having a disability. Specialists in a variety of disciplines can use the creative and practical techniques in this book to ensure careful transition planning, to build young people's confidence and competence in this work skills, and to foster support from businesses and community organizations for training and employment programs. Young people with disabilities need life-skills training before they leave school. Life Beyond the Classroom offers professionals and students indispensable information and effective strategies for ensuring successful, supported transitions.

Product Description: A college education can open the door to greater participation in the workplace and community. With this urgently needed, research-based book, readers will learn what they can do to make this crucial opportunity available to young people with a wide range of disabilities...read more

...the major focus of this book is to provide a comprehensive functional and longitudinal approach to curriculum design...

Product Description: '...this essential new guide will become a critical tool fo teachers of young adults by providing dozens of sample transition plans necessary for designing school-to-adult programs... (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: ...emphasizes individual task analysis sequences derived from competitive employment settings. This book combines narrative with a curriculum of vocational material for individuals with special needs... (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ...provides information to help direct service personnel understand how to write transition plans using a person- centered planning process... (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book transforms ''job placement'' into ''c areer counseling'' for people with physical and developmental disabilities. It presents step-by-step guidelines for helpi ng people with disabilities to identify their own interests. ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: ...written for students in training as well as professional who need up to date information on the best practices in mental retardation and developmental disabilities (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Developmental Disabilities" is a clinical reference for professionals working with the disabled. It uses a "best practices" approach, as well as case studies, to describe specific interventions that have proved to be effective in solving real problems as seen in actual field work...read more

Product Description: The "Vocational Integration Index" measures the "integration" of persons with disabilities with nondisabled workers in a given work setting. Developed over the past 5 years at Virginia Commonwealth University, the index is designed to analyze job sites, determine opportunities for vocational integration, and assess the degree to which disabled workers can take advantage of such opportunities...read more

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