Program Definition and Services Provided
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As part of their classroom experience, students in the adolescent program
have an opportunity to receive specialized pre-vocational training in the
pre-vocational center. The goals are to enhance positive work attitudes,
improve attentional capacity, promote direction following and work
persistence to task completion. Jobs include sorting, collating and
packaging tasks. Pre-vocational training is the home of Kids Works, a higher
level program where students take orders for items such as stationery, tee
shirts and goodie bags; complete the work necessary; and sell the completed
products.
The Learning and Doing Daily Employment Routines (LADDER) program is
specifically designed for the adolescent student. Students in this program
are taught about the world of work along a continuum of classroom jobs, to
school jobs, to supported employment. For example, a student may take the
daily attendance records to the office, enter attendance records into a
computer, or perhaps spend two hours a week under the supervision of a job
coach. We look at each student individually to provide them with job
sampling during their adolescent years to determine where they may be most
proficient and, therefore, successful. Our target for supported job
placement in the community is age 14.
Weekly, the students prepare a salad bar for approximately 100 staff
members. They do food shopping, processing, storing and salad bar set up. On
the day of salad bar, a student cashier is on station to secure staff and
student monies. In this way, the students learn to conceptualize the
exchange of money for services. Students are responsible for the operation
of vending machines located on the school campus.
All students are involved in a variety of off-campus activities that
include instruction in such recreation and leisure skills as bowling, golf,
horseback riding and swimming.
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