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Issue title: Proceedings of the 25th Annual APSE National Conference
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Brown, Lou | Kessler, Kim
Affiliations: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA | Dane County Department of Human Services, Madison, WI, USA
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Lou Brown, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. E-mail: lubrown@earthlink.net
Note: [] Lou Brown is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Kim Kessler is the former Co-Director of Community Work Services, Inc., a supported employment agency in Madison, Wisconsin. She is currently a Vocational Consultant for the Dane County Human Services Department who works primarily with the Madison Metropolitan School District on the transition of individuals with significant disabilities from school to integrated work. Related information produced by the authors and their colleagues can be accessed in www.website.education.wisc.edu/lbrown.
Abstract: In the past, when the vast majority of individuals with significant intellectual disabilities exited school, they were restricted to segregated workshops and activity centers or were confined to their homes. Each year increasing numbers receive the instruction and extra supports needed to perform real work in the real world for extended periods of time. Why do some have real jobs and the vast majority does not? Little is due to intellectual capabilities. Much is due to poorly trained professionals, inadequate and irrelevant instruction, low expectations, the lack or paucity of opportunities and the absence of long term extra supports. We know how to produce integrated employment realities for some. It is time to change our ways and produce them for the many thousands of others who so desperately need them. A logical, cost efficient and empirically validated 8 step sequence that has been used to arrange for individuals with significant intellectual disabilities to produce real work in integrated environments when they exit schools and segregated post school settings or when confinement to homes is ended is presented. Step # 1. Generate a Comprehensive Integrated Work Site Inventory Step # 2. Generate a Comprehensive Work Task Inventory Step # 3. Generate Integrated Work Sites Step # 4. Conduct a Work Skill Analysis Step # 5. Make a Personalized Worker to Work Site Match Step # 6. Provide Authentic Assessment and Instruction Step # 7. Maximize Natural Supervision Step # 8. Arrange For Long Term Supports As the individuals of concern are not able to arrange their own access to integrated work sites, others must do so. Seven of many possible strategies that have been used to generate such access are exemplified (Step 3). Rudimentary information pertaining to the other 7 steps will be afforded to provide context.
Keywords: Integrated work sites, significant intellectual disabilities, postschool employment
DOI: 10.3233/JVR-140675
Journal: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 85-97, 2014
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