This booklet from the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy helps students learn soft skills for employment success.
Includes videos for various skills.
Category: Professionals
National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: Teaching Skills
Lesson Plans for Teaching Employment Skills [link]
The National Technical Assistance Center on Transition provides a number of education-based resources transition planning.
Real Work Stories
“This site highlights the employment successes of people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) who are working in paid jobs in their communities. Through the use of innovative, front-line employment support practices, these individuals are earning money, forming networks, and contributing to their communities. Learn more about these people and the promising practices that led to their success.”
How to Build Partnerships for Career Exploration
How to Build Partnerships for Career Exploration [link]
This booklet by the Keene State College site of the Monadnock Center for Successful Transitions (MCST) describes how to build partnerships for career exploration using job shadows to explore the world of work.
Internships: The On-Ramp to Employment
Internships: The On-Ramp to Employment [link]
This booklet by The National Consortium on Leadership and Disability/Youth (NCLD-Youth) is a guide for students with disabilities to getting and making the most of an internship.
Kentucky Department of Education: Transition
Kentucky Department of Education: Transition [link]
Transition is the “exit” out of a child’s secondary school to the adult world. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that children with disabilities have access to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) that prepares them for further education, employment, and independent living. One strategy for ensuring a successful transition, is planning. As part of IDEA, schools are required to provide transition planning to help the student identify interests, strengths, preferences and needs. Transition planning also means identifying possible post-school activities, including postsecondary education, vocational education, integrated employment, continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living, and/or community participation. Transition is also developing a coordinated set of activities for a student that will help him or her to achieve those goals.
Phone number: (502) 564-4970
On the Job: Stories from Youth with Disabilities
On the Job: Stories from Youth with Disabilities [link]
Stories about the jobs of people with disabilities from the Waisman Center.
Impact: Feature Issue on Supporting New Career Paths for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Newsletter from the Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD) & Research and Training Center on Community Living about “Supporting New Career Paths for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.”
Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR)
Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation [link]
State program that gives funding, job coaches, and support to people with disabilities so they can work.
Phone: (502) 564-4440 or (800) 372-7172