Training Briefs These 2-4 page briefs and forms focus on a disability topic and provide useful information for training. You download the Adobe pdf file and we grant you a license to reprint it based on your selections. Use for: orientation • staff in-service • family and consumer training • employer marketing • boards of directors.
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Electronic Book Chapters Complete book chapters containing comprehensive discussion of various topics can be ordered and delivered electronically, saving time, and providing greater flexibility. When you need information on a specific area, try ordering just the chapters you need.
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Course: Marketing and Job Development Marketing and Job Development
for Youth and Adults with Disabilities
April 14 -27, 2009
A 2-week course covering the key principles and hands-on tools for finding jobs for people with disabilities and other high-unemployment groups.
Download Syllabus in Word
Keeping House: VHS Video This item is a VHS Video tape; for the same content delivered as a DVD, please see here. This video illustrates many housekeeping activities step-by-step within an entertaining story about Mary, a young woman with a developmental disability, and her friends, who want to have a party.
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It's All Part of the Job: Social Skills Training for the Workplace Four real-life workers with developmental disabilities and their employers discuss and demonstrate the social skills needed for job success. Features punctuality, attendance, appearance, getting along with others, taking breaks, following directions, and getting the job done. Entertaining, motivational, and award-winning (Editor's Choice Award, Booklist; Golden Eagle, CINE Media Festival).
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More Like a Dance: Whole Life Planning for People with Disabilities Manual Only This item is also available as a downloadable pdf file. To order, please see here.
For the full content delivered as a book and a video, please see here.
A terrific overview of person-centered planning! This is a unique set of tools to train staff, families and people with disabilities. Use the video to follow the life planning of four individuals with significant disabilities who talk about their goals and life dreams. See their plans come together and discover how they reach their vision for a better life. Use the manuals to train on the “how-toʼs.” Provide the pocket guides to consumers and their families to take home.
(Includes video, 2 manuals, five pocket guides).
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More Like a Dance: Whole Life Planning for People with Disabilities A terrific overview of person-centered planning! This is a unique set of tools to train staff, families and people with disabilities. Use the video to follow the life planning of four individuals with significant disabilities who talk about their goals and life dreams. See their plans come together and discover how they reach their vision for a better life. Use the manuals to train on the “how-toʼs.” Provide the pocket guides to consumers and their families to take home.
(Includes video, 2 manuals, five pocket guides).
The manual can be ordered separately as a downloadable pdf file (please see here); or as a paperback manual (please see here).
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My Life, My Dream This video and accompanying color guidebook present a wonderful set of training tools to introduce staff, families, and people with disabilities to the world of person centered planning
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Journeys in Progress: Stories from the Community Tells the story of four individuals as they discover valued community roles. Hear from their friends, circle of support members, and staff as they describe the gifts and talents these individuals bring. Learn how "community builders" develop community connections through person-centered planning and community outreach. 17 minutes, close captioned.
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Accommodations: The Five-Step Process for Job Success Be a valuable resource to employers, supported workers, and families. Use this booklet to take them through the five phases of successful accommodations. Includes process summary and examples.
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