Chapter 15 Vocab and Question Flashcards
Ableism:
People who treat people with disabilities differently because of their disabilities. Negativity.
Competitive employment:
Work for people with disabilities that get paid either at or above people in the same job/profession without disabilities but certainly not below.
Customized Employment:
When a person is supported to do a job based on the current skills of the potential employee and needs of the employer
Deinstitutionalization:
The movement to get big institutions shut down and to use smaller, community-based residences and work settings
Sheltered employment:
Work for disabilities in segregated setting, operated by private non-profit agency, employs people with disabilities under special provisions of federal minimum wage laws.
Sheltered workshop:
A structured work environment where people with disabilities receive employment training and preform work for pay.
Supported employment:
Providing ongoing, individualized supports to people with disabilities to help them find, learn, and maintain paid employment at regular work sites in the community.
Supported living:
Personalized networks of natural supports to help people with disabilities live successfully in homes of their own in the community.
Work activity center:
A sheltered work and activity program for adults with severe disabilities; teaches concentration and persistence, along with basic life skills, for little or no pay
Transition services:
A coordinated set of activities for a child with a disability designed to facilitate the child’s movement from school to post school activities, including postsecondary education, employment independent living, and community participation
Transition component of the IEP
Specifies desired post school outcomes in four areas, and instructional programming and support to help the student attain those outcomes; required part of each student’s individualized education program by age 16 years.
How can people with disabilities participate in recreational and leisure activity?
With transportation, physical ability and skills to play games, and willing and able friends.
People with disabilities are increasingly asserting their human rights, this is known as _____?
Self-advocacy
Will’s bridges model for transition from high-school to adult employment entails three levels supports?
1) Generic
2) Time-limited
3) Ongoing
When a child with an IEP reaches 16 (or 14 in other areas) their goals must include?
Measurable postsecondary goals based on age appropriate transition assessments and a description of the transition services needed to assist the child in reaching those goals
