Get a Job Curriculum

A functional curriculum for job-related social and self-management skills for the workplace and home environments

Product Features:
-Teaches skills for successfully getting and maintaining a job
-Supports review and assessment of videotaped interview skills
-Key concepts include self-examining personal strengths and weaknesses, creative problem-solving, self-confidence and assertiveness, advocacy, and accepting responsibility

ORDER CODE: AT-GJ-02W

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.

Co-authored by speech-language pathologist Corinne Thomas-Kersting and special education teacher and occupational therapist Dona Schumacher. Covered spiralbound book, 80 pages, includes a Win/Mac CD with printable PDF, 2008.

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