The Way to Work: How to Facilitate Work Experience for Youth in Transition

by Luecking, Richard G.

• ISBN13: 9781557668981
• ISBN10: 1557668981
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-30
• Publisher: Paul H Brookes Pub Co

Summary

This practical guide helps educators, transition specialists, and employment specialists facilitate individualized, person-centered work experiences and jobs for high school students and young adults with a wide range of disabilities. Readers will get the specific, ready-to-use guidance they need to uncover students' strengths, needs, and interests through formal and informal assessments; promote students' social skills for success in the workplace; recruit employers and help them accept and understand disability and accommodations; help students decide when and how to disclose a disability to an employer; guide students in advocating effectively for job accommodations; involve families in the work experience; help employers and employees develop mutually beneficial partnerships; support and mentor young people in the workplace; and build their own knowledge of legal considerations. To help with every step of facilitating meaningful employment, readers will get examples of model programs, stories that illustrate what works and doesn't work, more than a dozen photocopiable tools and forms, and end-of-chapter "Learning Labs" with reflection questions and thought-provoking activities. Teachers and transition specialists will rely on this strategy-filled guidebook to connect students with the early work experiences they really want¿and make lifelong career satisfaction the rule, not the exception, for people with disabilities.

Author Biography

Richard G. Luecking, Ed.D., is President of TransCen, Inc., Rockville, Maryland. He is the co-author of Working Relationships, also available from Brookes Publishing Co.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Foreword JD Hoye	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Work-Based Learning and Work Experiences as Indispensable Educational Tools	p. 9
Setting the Stage for Quality Work Experiences	p. 27
Planning for Work Experiences	p. 41
Work Experience and Disability Disclosure	p. 65
Supporting Families to Support Work Experience	p. 83
Workplace Partners: Strategies for Finding and Recruiting Employers	p. 99
Workplace Partners: Strategies for Retaining Effective Employer Participation	p. 119
Supporting Youth in the Workplace	p. 139
Workplace Mentors for Youth Workers	p. 171
Connecting with Professional and Agency Partners to Foster and Sustain Work Success	p. 189
The Pursuit of Quality Work-Based Learning	p. 203
Index	p. 217
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