Teaching Pre-Employment Skills to 14-17-Year-Olds: The Autism Works Now!® Method - Softcover

Lara, Joanne

 
9781785927256: Teaching Pre-Employment Skills to 14-17-Year-Olds: The Autism Works Now!® Method
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1785927256 ISBN 13: 9781785927256
Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Based on the Autism Works Now!® Workplace Readiness Workshop, this interactive resource shows how to help students aged 14-17 develop the necessary transition skills for getting and keeping a meaningful job, with accompanying worksheets available to download.

Structured around 2-hour weekly sessions over an eight month period, the program is ideal for teaching to groups of students with autism. It covers essential topics such as organization and time management, interview skills, appropriate workplace attire, and networking. It advises on how to arrange a field trip to local businesses so students can gain experience of being in the workplace. Worksheets and questionnaires help to track progress and discover what types of job will be appropriate based on an individual's skills and interests, and the book also includes a template for creating effective resumes.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Joanne Lara, MA was a professional dancer before becoming a classroom education specialist and university professor. She was the founder of the nonprofit organization Autism Movement Therapy®, based in Los Angeles, California, which certifies, trains, and licenses dancers, educators, parents, and professional service providers in AMT. Joanne was a Core Adjunct Professor at National University in LA, California and taught weekly Autism Movement Therapy classes in Van Nuys, CA, where she had a private ABA behavioral consultation practice. She produced the documentary Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the ARTS, was the executive producer of the LA musical event Temple Grandin & Friends: Autism Works Now and was a columnist for Autism Asperger's Digest and Sensory World.

Susan Osborne was the Director of Workplace Readiness at Autism Works Now where she created the curriculum and facilitated weekly classes for the original Workplace Readiness Workshop. She is the founder of Spectrum Help Coaching Services which focuses on post high school transition planning for young adults on the autism spectrum. She is the former programme director of a residential and academic support program where she facilitated career training and job placements and executive functioning support for young adults with autism. She is the mother of an adult son on the autism spectrum who graduated with a public high school diploma.

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Based on the Autism Works Now!® Workplace Readiness Workshop, this interactive resource shows how to help students aged 14-17 develop the necessary transition skills for getting and keeping a meaningful job, with accompanying worksheets available to download. Structured around weekly sessions, the program is ideal for teaching to groups of students with autism. It covers essential topics such as organization, interview skills, appropriate workplace attire, networking, and arranging work experience so students can gain direct experience of being in the workplace. Downloadable worksheets help to track progress and discover appropriate careers based on an individual's skills and interests, and the book also includes a template for creating effective resumes.

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Verlag
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785927256
ISBN 13 
9781785927256
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
264
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