Product Description: This book presents a pragmatic approach to finding employment for people with disabilities. The author details career counseling approaches and explains job placement strategies for individuals with disabilities. The emphasis throughout the book is on helping people with disabilities who must rely on counselor placement in order to secure and/or maintain work...read more

Product Description: This text is a clear and current description of the instructional strategies that can be immediately applied across age groups and disability labels. An evidence-based instructional methodology is provided, which has proved to be effective in teaching skills to students and adults with disabilities...read more

Product Description: This text is a clear and current description of the instructional strategies that can be immediately applied across age groups and disability labels. An evidence-based instructional methodology is provided, which has proved to be effective in teaching skills to students and adults with disabilities...read more

Product Description: Transition Ieps: A Curriculum Guide for Teachers and Transition Practitioners

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: '...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)

Product Description: This book is co-published by Research Press and the Behavioral Institute for Children and Adolescents. It presents a comprehensive blueprint for establishing and conducting a successful community-based vocational and transition program...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses how to overcome negative stereotypes, employer fears, and self-sabotaging beliefs. (view table of contents)

Product Description: ...examines the important topic of employment. It is designed to assist transition-related personnel by providing ideas for proactively meeting the challenge of full employment for students... (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ...provides a framework for assessind individuals with disabilities of all ages for better planning for the transitions in their lives... (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Individuals with disabilities have unique problems. Adjusting to post–high school life can be especially difficult for individuals with disabilities who are expected to find and maintain employment, live on their own, and function successfully in their communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This edited text contains 18 articles concerning the preparation of special education students for the transition from school to adulthood. The course focuses on practical ways to make special needs students functional in community and employment situations.

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Discusses careers for physically challenged people, tells how to focus on ability not disability, create great resumes, and prepare for job interviews (view table of contents)

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Provides advice for disabled Americans who are unemployed on job identification, resumes, disability disclosure, and interviewing (view table of contents)

Product Description: Aimes at employers, job coaches, and other program staff, this book stresses partnerships between businesses to achieve positive employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.

Job seekers with disabilities learn to discover what employers can be asked to provide; develop marketable skills; decide if a home-based job is right for them; and locate resources to ease their transition into the job market. Original.