Get a Job Curriculum

Objective:  Prepare students with significant learning and behavioral disabilities, cognitive challenges and physical disabilities for post-school work opportunities.

Job related social and self-management skills are essential for student with special needs.  Workers with disabilities regularly lose jobs because of difficulties with social situations in job settings.  Being successful in getting and keeping a job depends on social skills in a variety of areas, and most of all preparedness for the many and varied challenges of a job setting.

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.   Coauthored b y 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