VOCATIONAL EDUCATION/TRAINING

Aside from the actual title, Role of Vocational Education in Transition Services For Handicapped Youth, I got excited for students with disabilities and their stakeholders when I found this article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pric/is_198500/ai_1561189206/. It provides helpful information for students with disabilities who plan to transition to VOCATIONAL EDUCATION:

• What is Transition?
• How can Transition be facilitated?
• What is the role of VOCATIONAL EDUCATION in Transition Services?
• What are some of the benefits of coordination services?
• What are some current problems in coordinating services?
• What are some exemplary Transition Services projects?

**Select the #2 tab to proceed to the second page to read the article in its entirety. It’s a quick read but full of information.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The title, VOCATION REHABILITATION: Helping People With Disabilities in Jobs and Careers preempted my thoughts toward getting a job right away. That is the ultimate goal but this website http://www.amputee-coalition.org/easyread/first_step_2005/voc_rehab-ez.html also provides information that may interest individual with disabilities who are seeking VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING. In order to use VR services, you must:

• Be legally eligible to work in the United States. This means that you must prove that you are a citizen of the United States, usually by showing your driver’s license, Social Security card and at least one other form of ID, such as a birth certificate or passport.
• Have a physical, mental or emotional disability that keeps you from finding or keeping a job.
• Be willing and able to work.

After acceptance, VR offers the following Training & Education:

• On-the-job training. This means paid training under supervision in a normal work environment, learning to use the equipment, documents or materials that you will use when you are ready to work without supervision.
• Self-employment. This means having your own business, rather than working for others. Self-employment is often a good choice for people with disabilities. VR can help research different types of businesses, provide advice from consultants, and help pay the costs of starting a business or buying equipment.
• Supported employment. This is on-the-job help for workers or their employers.
• Short-term vocational training. This includes training programs to help people enter the job market quickly. Training can be just a few hours or take up to two years.
• College education. VR can help pay college costs beyond financial aid from the school.

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Individuals with disabilities and their providers may find this website http://www.inspiritec.org/InspiritecOrg/PWD/vocational_training.asp InspiriTec: Inspiring Work Through Technology useful if the individual with disabilities is interested in receiving VOCATIONAL TRAINING in the IT field. They provide training for computer data entry and customer service. Since 2000, they have generated 267 new jobs, 882 IT training sessions to 743 trainees with disabilities, and maintained a 90+% retention rate.

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Resources for Vocational Education & Other Post-Secondary Resources

http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/content/voc.html Resource Materials and Technology Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing