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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"competitive employment"”.
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A Macro-Environmental Analysis of Competitive Employment for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… of funding and research going to lifespan and employment issues. There is no comprehensive multidisciplinary perspective that captures the threats and opportunities to build a neurodiverse workforce. Some thirty years after the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the …
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Longitudinal Trends of Competitive Employment for Developmentally Disabled Adults: A Benefit-Cost Analysis
… to determine the economic efficiency of a Competitive Employment Program for 22 developmentally disabled adults over an eight-year period. While Competitive Employment Programs have demonstrated that developmentally disabled adults are capable of becoming members of the work force at a much …
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An investigation of the variables related to competitive employment and earnings of vocational rehabilitation consumers with blindness or visual impairments
… an extreme disadvantage to obtain and maintain employment and thus may seek the assistance of vocational rehabilitation counselors. Information on these individuals, encompassing demographics, disability, public support, and vocational rehabilitation services, is collected by the Rehabilitation …
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DEMOGRAPHIC AND SERVICE VARIABLES AS PREDICTORS OF STATE-FEDERAL VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SYSTEM COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AMONG CONSUMERS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
… people with disabilities obtain and maintain employment in their communities. Although some people with traumatic brain injury return to work with minor adjustments, high proportions do not return to former employment or find work after their injuries. Analyzing vocational rehabilitation …
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Project Success: Examining the impact of supported work programs on clients' self-esteem and quality of life
Among the goals of recent supported work employment programs is improvement of competitive employment opportunities for individuals who suffer from chronic mental illness, and for whom competitive employment outcomes are poor. This study examined the effects of a vocational rehabilitation program, …
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Assessing Employers' Expectations of Entry-Level Survival Skills for Light Industrial Occupations
… social validation methodology to the area of competitive employment. A primary objective of this study was to determine what performance standards potential employers consider to be important for mentally retarded persons' job entry. A second objective was to compare identified competitive …
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Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for persons with severe mental illness -Outcomes of a randomised controlled trial in Sweden
… participation can provide a means for obtaining competitive employment, becoming integrated in the community and promoting personal recovery among the participants. The findings indicated that IPS was five times faster in supporting persons with SMI to obtain a competitive employment, as compared …
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Outcomes of Supported Employment for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
… Schizoaffective Disorder face heavy barriers to employment, including the symptoms of the disorders themselves, medication side effects, and stigma and misconceptions about mental illness from coworkers and employers. Consistent employment has a strong positive impact on recovery prognosis for …
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An Analysis of Select Psychometric Properties of the Vocational Assessment and Curriculum Guide
… social skills of disabled persons interested in competitive employment, were addressed. Reliability issues including stability of measurement, internal consistency, and interobserver agreement were examined. A validation procedure was conducted to determine whether VACG domain scores …
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A comparative analysis of directions, responses, and consequences involving persons with mental retardation in employment sites and vocational training programs
… transition initiative has been the attainment of employment outcomes for youths with disabilities. The expectation is that with the proper vocational training individuals with mental retardation can develop the survival skills necessary for competitive employment. The literature identifies …
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Work and psychiatric disabilities. A person, environment, and occupation perspective on Individual Placement and Support
… solving best explained the variation in having competitive employment or not, and correlated with increased hours and weeks in competitive employment. Higher scores in delayed verbal recall correlated with having a higher income. Communication and interaction skills differed between the groups …
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Repeated reading as an intervention for high school students identified with a specific learning disability
… opportunities, and limited opportunities for competitive employment. This study used a multiple-baseline across participants design to measure the effectiveness of repeated reading as a strategy to improve reading fluency with high school students who have been identified with a specific …
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Industrial structure and employment growth in the 1990s in Appalachian counties
Employment growth in the 1990s and its relationship with the initial industrial structure in 1990 are examined in the case of Appalachian counties, after controlling for labor-market conditions and other factors, such as labor mobility, natural amenities, and market size. Spatial exploratory data …
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Employment specialists' competencies as predictors of employment outcomes.
Employment specialist competencies were examined as predictors of employment outcomes for consumers with severe mental illness participating in supported employment. Using a cross-sectional correlational design a variety of self-report and supervisor-rated performance measures were examined for …
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Patterns of Service Delivery to Transition-Age Vocational Rehabilitation Consumers with Psychiatric Disabilities
… number of transition-age youth in the US and low employment rates for individuals with disabilities in general, it is necessary to identify the patterns of service variables that are more likely to lead to a competitive employment outcome for this population. This study was an investigation of the …
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An Analysis of Reported Factors Contributing to Job Terminations of Individuals With Severe Disabilities in Relation to Length of Tenure and Type of Job
… their jobs most often within the first year of employment. Additionally, no single time frame within that first year was found to account for a higher percentage of terminations. These results, coupled with those from an earlier study by Maxwell et al. (1985), have implications for follow-up …
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The effects of vocational group counseling on adaptive behavior at work with moderately mentally retarded adults residing in group homes
… mentally handicapped individuals in sheltered or competitive employment.
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Transition Competencies: Secondary Special Education Teachers' Perceptions of Their Frequency of Performance
… they transition into postsecondary educational, competitive employment, independent living, and preferred leisure/ social settings as young adults.</p>
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The Impact of Experiential Learning: Assessing the Outcomes of Internship Experiences for Students Entering the Construction Industry
… in the construction industry creating a more competitive employment environment in the construction industry as well as an increase in project requirements due to complexity, duration of work, fewer employees to do the work, and the type of projects being undertaken. These changes have created …
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Validation of the Development Work Personality Scale for Use With Persons With Disabilities and Chronic Illness
… on personality and behaviors as they relate to employment outcomes for the rising number of people living with disabilities and chronic illness. There are a number of well-established and validated theories, models, and instruments that have been implemented to improve work outcomes for persons …