Transcript Employment for Persons with Autism

Employment for Persons with
Autism: The Benefits of the
Customized Process
Assuring that employment works for
all persons with autism
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Customized Employment
Essentially, CE provides a set of services
prior to employment that are designed
to tailor the employment relationship in
ways that meet both job seeker and
employer needs/benefits.
CE attempts to avoid the barriers
created by job descriptions by
unbundling demands through voluntary
negotiations with employers.
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Customized Employment
According to US/DOL:
Customized employment means individualizing
the employment relationship between
employees and employers in ways that meet
the needs of both.
It is based on an individualized determination
of the strengths, needs, and interests of
the person with a disability, and is also
designed to meet the specific needs of the
employer.
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Unbundling demand
Employers have typically met needs by
bundling demands into job descriptions.
Job seekers with complex lives often
don’t have the “whole package” to offer.
Customized Employment allows employers
to “unbundle” demand and to take
advantage of discrete competencies.
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Areas of Employer Benefit
Unmet Workplace
Needs:
Tasks better
performed by others:
Specific benefit to
enhance business:
This area focuses on
tasks that need to
get done but are not
getting done in the
way the employer
would like. It also
can include tasks
that have not been
performed but need
to be.
This area focuses on
aspects of jobs that
might better be
performed by others at
a lower pay grade.
This option can
directly save money
for employers.
This area focuses on
workplace needs for
additional productivity
in specific tasks. It
must be matched with
job seeker’s specific
competencies.
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Customized Process
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Discovery
Capturing discovery through profiles
Customized, person-centered planning
Portfolio/visual resume development
Job development and negotiation
Here, CE dovetails with Supported Employment
• Job site analysis, accommodations,
support
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The Critical Role of Discovery
for Persons with Autism
• Avoids traditional comparative
assessment
• Identifies Conditions for Success
• Follows Personal Interests
• Translates Potential Contributions to be
offered to employers
• Details Challenges that need to be
matched, negotiated and/or disclosed
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The focus of discovery
• Conditions for Success
• Interests toward an aspect of the
Labor Market
• Potential Contributions to Employers
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Characteristics of an Ideal
Job
Conditions are characteristics of any job
developed for the individual. Conditions refer
to issues such as days of work, pay, benefits,
location of the job, inside/outside work, time
of day, hours per week, etc. While it is
possible to have too many conditions, these
are extremely important considerations in
customizing a job. Target go/no go conditions
for priority consideration.
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Characteristics of an Ideal
Job
Interests are characteristics of an ideal job
that gives direction toward a certain area of
work interest. These should be stated in the
broadest possible manner, allowable by the
applicant. Interests might include: working
around boats, office work or working in a
retail setting. Do not confuse work
preferences with preferentially-stated
conditions. Avoid using job titles.
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Characteristics of an Ideal
Job
Contributions refer to the individual’s
characteristics that will be offered to
employers. These might include:
Personality characteristics
Skills
Credentials
Experiences
Recommendations
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Accounting for Challenges
Challenges refer to all the issues, often
related to disability, that need to be
dealt with in order to make employment
successful.
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Areas to be matched
Areas to be negotiated
Routines, idiosyncrasies, habits
Challenges related to impact of disability
Issues to be disclosed to employers
Other (transportation, financial, etc.)
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Translating Skills > Tasks
Current Skills of Life refer to any
performance activity that the individual
currently performs without support or with
support, as described in notes.
Potential Work Tasks refer to current skills
of life, translated into employer language,
that the person can reasonably be
expected to perform at work, with
training, supports and accommodations as
necessary.
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James had four jobs and quit all four
until discovery identified critical
issues for success.
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Categories of SE Customized
Employment
• Single source jobs : Job descriptions based on
tasks derived from a single traditional job
• Multiple source jobs: Job descriptions based
on tasks derived from a variety of jobs
• Created Jobs: Job descriptions based on
heretofore unmet needs of a work setting
• Contract Businesses: Carved, negotiated or
created job descriptions performed under a
contract
• Micro-enterprises: Small businesses based on
the unmet needs of a local market
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Single Source job: Electric
power company video editing
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Multiple Source Job: Health
care provider
• Scanning
• Light data entry
• Targeted research
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Created Source Job: Tax
Assessor's office
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Multiple Source job: Local
radio station
Tasks from:
• Reception
• DJs
• Advertising
• Station
manager
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Single Source Job: Bottling
Company
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Multiple Source Job: Large
hospital
The first phase of the Employment
Project, the discovery phase,
made us see our son, Efrain,
through a different set of eyes.
What we had seen as negative
traits turned out to be positive
attributes. He was allowed the
opportunity to take risks with
dignity by being matched to a job
he could be successful at.
Efrain’s Parents
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Multiple Source Job:
Control Company
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