ERIC Number: ED322661
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990
Pages: 274
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Supported Employment for Persons with Severe Disabilities: From Research to Practice. Volume III.
Kregel, John, Ed.; And Others
This volume discusses the effects of supported employment on persons with developmental and other severe disabilities, by assembling the results of research investigations conducted by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Supported Employment. Papers included are: "Supported Employment in Virginia: 1980-1988" (John Kregel and others); "Supported Employment: Promises Deferred for Persons with Severe Handicaps" (John Kregel and Paul Wehman); "The Effect of Consumer Characteristics and Type of Employment Model on Individual Outcomes in Supported Employment" (John Kregel and others); "Employment Outcomes of Persons Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Preinjury, Postinjury, and Supported Employment" (Paul Wehman and others); "Supported Employment: An Alternative Model for Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Severe Neurologic, Psychiatric, or Physical Disabilities" (Paul Wehman and others); "Fringe Benefits Earned by Supported Employment Participants" (Michael West and others); "An Analysis of State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Costs To Provide Supported Employment Services" (W. Grant Revell and others); "The National Supported Employment Initiative and Its Impact on Rehabilitation Counselors" (Michael Shafer); "Social Integration in the Workplace: An Analysis of the Interaction Activities of Workers with Mental Retardation and Their Co-Workers" (Wendy Parent and others); "Quality Indicators of Effective Vocational Transition Programs" (Paul Sale and others); "An Analysis of the Job Duties Performed by Supported Employment Program Managers" (Valerie Brooke and others); and "Supported Employment: Job Retention" (Michael West and Trudie Hughes). References accompany most chapters. (JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Delivery Systems, Fringe Benefits, Head Injuries, Individual Characteristics, Job Analysis, Models, Outcomes of Treatment, Program Administration, Program Costs, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Rehabilitation Counseling, Severe Disabilities, Social Integration, Supported Employment, Theory Practice Relationship, Transitional Programs, Vocational Rehabilitation
Virginia Commonwealth University, Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, 1314 West Main St., VCU Box 2011, Richmond, VA 23284-2011 ($13.95).
Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: National Inst. on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center.
Identifiers - Location: Virginia
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