| Get a Job Curriculum
Focus on job interview skills Job-related social
and self-management skills are essential for students with special needs.
Workers with disabilities regularly lose jobs because of difficulties with
social situations in job settings. To be successful in getting and keeping a
job, students with disabilities need interview skills, social skills in a
variety of areas, and most of all preparedness for the many and varied
challenges of a job setting. As a result, they need lots of time to learn and
practice vocational skills.
This curriculum teaches such competencies as the ability to self-examine
one's strengths and weaknesses, creative problem-solving skills, self-confidence
and assertiveness, advocacy skills, and accepting responsibility.
Coauthored by speech-language pathologist Corinne Thomas-Kersting and special
education teacher and occupational therapist Dona Schmacher. Covered spiralbound
book, 80 pages, includes a Win/Mac CD with printable PDF, 2008. |
