This article discusses how agencies representing jobseekers with disabilities should approach businesses and market their clients by using a strengths based approach rather than focusing on...Read more
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The Massachusetts Work-Based Learning Plan is a diagnostic, goal setting and assessment tool designed to drive learning and productivity on the job. Professionals can assess students in the areas...Read more
This 40 page booklet is a collection of writings from the perspectives of employers who describe how they became involved in providing work experiences for youth with disabilities, what made it...Read more
This document provides guidelines for performing a situational assessment, a valuable tool for assisting a person with a disability to make choices about the types of jobs and work environments...Read more
This flow chart illustrates the process of job development based on the philosophy that there is a job for anyone who wants one....Read more
This checklist and worksheet assists job developers to think through the variety of ways to collect information about a job seeker. It describes seven strategies for information gathering, and...Read more
Think College Insight Brief #18 describes a project that sought to find effective and low-cost ways to improve secondary and postsecondary professionals’ job development skills....Read more
This Institute for Community Inclusion Institute Brief describes quality employment practices for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The brief discusses considerations for placement...Read more
This technical report describes various approaches to job development. The report (a) describes the results of a study on job development/placement professionals' strategies in the employment...Read more
Think College Insight Brief #22 describes how Kentucky postsecondary programs are working with vocational rehabilitation (VR) to provide employment opportunities to students with ID who are...Read more