Transcript Selecting the Right Work Experience for Youth with

Selecting the Right Work
Experience for Youth
with Disabilities
Ellen Condon
Project Director
University of MT Rural Institute
Marc Gold and Associates
Factors
What factors determine the “right” work
experience?
• Age of student
• Need for individualization to participate
• Purpose of the experience
 Exposure to work
 Teaching skills within an interest area
 Assessing skills and aptitudes
 Assessing ongoing support needs
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Age of Student
(How much time do we have?)
• Middle School Students (or earlier)
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 Exposure to ‘work’
 Share the perception that everyone can ‘work’
 Begin discussions with family and student about ‘work’
Try various tasks, various environments
Learn job related skills
Begin thinking about self management and self direction
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Middle School: Exposure to Work
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Age of Students…
High School Students
 Assist students to clarify what they want to do for work
 Build skills in areas of interest
 Learn what features of a work environment work and
don’t work for you
 Experience an ongoing community job experience
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Student Working at an Auto
Dealership
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Learning about the person
As we go to know Richard,
his family shared information
about his interests and skills
with kids. This led the team
to develop a work exploration
in the preschool.
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Work Experience
A work experience
gave the team
information about
Richard’s skills and
attributes around
children.
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Age of Students…
• 18-21 year olds
• Off campus work experiences & paid
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positions
Expand skills and tasks in areas of interest
Experience an ongoing job
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Drew’s Story
Drew mowed lawns for his neighbors as a
summer job.
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Cathy’s Story
A customized position was negotiated at Wal-Mart
for Cathy during high school.
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Tim’s Story
Tim collated fact sheets
and assembled packets
including placing stickers
on the folders, for the Rural
Institute Transition Projects.
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Need for individualization…
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Bella’s Story
Bella’s contributions met
needs of the employer and
the job developer was able
to negotiate supports that
Ann needed. The
experience turned into a
paid position.
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Need for Individualization
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Need for Individualization - 2
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Henry’s Story
Henry stapled and hole
punched materials for the
Transition Projects. His
participation and production
doubled during his
experience.
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An Evolution of Work
Experiences
Leading to the outcome of employment
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Types of Work Experiences
• General work experience
 Varied experiences offered to all students
• Matched to student interest
• Customized to the student’s ideal conditions for
the purpose of gathering information about
tasks, skills or validating a condition
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General Work Experiences
Anel in Middle School
• Food Bank: Stocking
food, portioning food,
newsletter mailings
• School Library: Shelving
books
• In School newspaper
Delivery
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Anel’s Skills and Tasks:
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Follows a written list of tasks
Files by letter
Types data into computer
Folds, stuffs envelopes, labels
Follows rules
Attends to time
Learns routes and layouts
Measures out food
Stocks and organizes shelves
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What Did We Learn?
Anel: what did we learn about conditions and
support needs?
• Anel does best when he knows what is next, the
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schedule, and the length of each activity
He learned to manage his own ‘front loading’ of work
information (called in to the food bank)
Following work rules- wearing gloves
Remembers routes and routines
Driven to complete the task
Being flexible
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Anel’s Support Needs & Goals
Work experience & the IEP
• Response when others don’t follow the rules
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 School library
Response when people are in your way and make it
difficult to do your job
 Delivering papers through out the school
Understanding that your work is driven by a specific
production amount or time
Expand his tasks and marketable skills
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Anel’s Matched Experiences
Interests in kids, computer, books
• CDC: filing, organizing, inventory forms, copy and file
forms
• Reading to children, support person for summer camp
• Kalispell Public Library
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Matched Work Experiences
The plan for high school:
Expand task list
• Working with children in the summer program;
reading, theater
• Computers
• Cooking/ food preparation
• Editing/ proof reading
• Numbers/math
Identify Additional Skills
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Ivan’s Story
Ivan participated in inschool work experiences
Freshman and Sophomore
years
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Ivan’s Story (part 2)
He delivered mail, stocked
the vending machines,
picked up recycling,
washed dishes, and stocked
the Latte cart.
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Ivan’s Story (part 3)
Ivan volunteers at the food
bank to gain work
experience & for support
staff to learn about his
support needs and skills.
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Ivan’s Story (part 4)
Ivan uses written
checklists to move from
one task to the next on
his own.
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Assessing a Student’s Skills
Assessing a student’s skills
and aptitudes in a wellmatched job site will provide
more accurate information
about abilities and support
needs.
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Information about Jim’s Ideal
Conditions for Success.
• Jim does best in an environment where the
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rules are clear and enforced
Mostly male
Working around the same few people daily
Succinct instruction up front
A variety of familiar tasks
Physical tasks
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Performance Changes in Well
Matched Positions.
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Job Trial
A job trial matched to Jim’s
conditions showed different
performance.
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Work Site Analysis
What can the student
learn in this setting?
• Skills
• Tasks
• Job related skills
• Machinery, equipment
• Academic skills
• Communication skills
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What can we learn about the
student in this setting?
• Environment works?
• Supervision?
• Tasks work/don’t work
• Support needs?
• Effective support strategies
• Quality of performance
• Learning style
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What Information Are We
Gathering From Work
Experiences?
Skills
Task list
Connections
Successful support strategies
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Job Evaluation
Observational Notes - Tim
Tim collated the 7 different Social Security Fact sheets and
created 30 folders in 20 minutes. Upon completion of this
task there were 3 of one of the fact sheets left over while
the rest were all gone. Tim flipped through each of the 30
packets looking for any packet that did not have 1 copy of
each of the fact sheets. After checking all 30 he walked to
his supervisor’s office and told her he was done and that he
had a few extra fact sheets.
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Features of Task Observation:
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Motivation indicated
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Specific Tasks: what is it, does general performance
vary with tasks
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Connections
Supports offered/used
General Performance: Pace, correctness, consistency,
stamina
Concerns
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Observational Notes - Chuck
Frank explains to the job coach and Chuck that he wants to thin out
stuffed animals and throw away older stuffed animals from the
youth section of the store. Frank looks directly at Chuck and Chuck
maintains eye contact with Frank. Both the job coach and Chuck
say “O.K.”. The job coach leads the way to the youth section with a
white trash bag. The job coach then holds the trash bags and
Chuck picks out a stuffed animal, holds it up to the job coach who
nods or says “Yup” then Chuck puts it in the white trash bag. When
task is completed, the job coach gives Chuck the trash bag then
tells Chuck they are throwing trash bag away. The job coach leads
the way to the garbage can outside and opens the lid and Chuck
throws the bag in the garbage.
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Chuck’s Performance
Chuck worked at the Commod thrift store for 2 quarters
with 1:1 support from the job coach. Chuck followed
supervisor directions and job coach directions. Chuck
needed to be directed throughout the various tasks during
this work experience.
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Work Assessment Summary
• Performance of job tasks
• Supports needed, offered
• Environmental factors
• Critical job factors
• Learning style
• Recommendations for the next experience
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Clarifying Support Needs
• He needs a 1:1 all the time v.s.
• He needs a predictable schedule and a coworker nearby
to remind him to check his list if he looks lost.
• Do to her lack of safety skills with strangers she needs to
be in supervised setting v.s.
• We want her to work with familiar people in a nonpublic
setting.
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Discovery helps reframe what may
be perceived as barriers to
employment and community
membership into “Ideal Conditions
for success” and “Support needs”
Focus on how someone can participate
not why they can’t
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Let’s reframe what we perceive as
barriers to employment and
community membership into
“ideal conditions for success and
support needs”
Focus on how someone can participate not
why they can’t
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Comments & Questions
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Contact Information
Ellen Condon
University of MT Rural Institute
Marc Gold and Associates
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://ruralinstitute.umt.edu/transition
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THANK YOU!
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Education Credits
CRCC Credit - (2.0)
Approved by Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification
(CRCC)
• By Friday, December 17, 2010, participants must score 80% or
better on a online Post Test and submit an online CRCC
Request Form via the MyTACE Portal.
CEU Credit - (pending 0.2)
Approved by the University College at Syracuse University
• By Friday, December 17, 2010, participants must submit an
online CEU Request Form via the MyTACE Portal.
My TACE Portal: TACEsoutheast.org/myportal
**For CRCC credit, you must reside in the 8 U.S. Southeast states served by the TACE
Region IV [AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN]. If beyond TACE Region IV, you may apply for
CEU credit.
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Disclaimer
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