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Rudrud, Eric; Markve, Robert; Buehner, Doug; Morris, Randall – 1998
This report discusses the outcomes of a South Dakota project designed to develop and validate a natural support system involving typical co-workers providing on the job training and support to individuals with disabilities. The Co-Worker Mentoring in Supported Employment (CMSE) project had the following outcomes: (1) job development activities…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Disabilities, Employer Attitudes
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Browder, Diane M.; Minarovic, Timothy J. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2000
Three employees with moderate mental retardation who were nonreaders were taught to use sight words to self-initiate job tasks in competitive employment settings. Training resulted in the ability to read job-specific sight words, to use verbalized self-instruction, to use a self-monitoring checklist, to self-initiate work tasks, and increased…
Descriptors: Adults, Employer Employee Relationship, Moderate Mental Retardation, Reading Instruction
Guggenheim, Eric Fries – 2003
Materials from Agora 12 demonstrate that the disabled are merely another side of ourselves and training for them is a means of developing and acquiring independence and of becoming absorbed into society. A Foreword outlines the subjects of the three sessions: social solidarity and mental disability; training of the mentally psychologically…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Cost Effectiveness, Developed Nations