Transition Skills and Prevocational Training

• • Right of persons with disabilities to quality education and opportunities to develop their abilities or skills to thrive in life
  • Where the transition services and prevocational skills come in, offered in some private and public schools, specifically those that have special education program


  EDUCATION (RA 7277: Magna Carta for PWDs)
• Right of persons with disabilities to vote and to be assisted by a person of his choice in voting in the national or local elections


  POLITICAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS (RA 7277: Magna Carta for PWDs)
• No entity shall discriminate against a qualified person with disability by reason of the individual’s disability in procedures, hiring, promotions, and etc.


  EMPLOYMENT (RA 7277: Magna Carta for PWDs)
• Infants and toddlers, birth through age 2, with disabilities and their families receive early intervention services under...


  IDEA PART C
• • Children and youth ages 3 through 21 receive special education and related services under...
  • This is what we call special services, which includes transition and prevocational training


  IDEA PART B
• Transition services should be based on the individual child’s needs
• Transition services for children with disabilities can be special education
• • A coordinated set of activities of a child with a disability.
  • Designed to be within a results-oriented process, that is focused on improving the academic and functional achievement of the child with a disability to facilitate transition


  TRANSITION SERVICES (IDEA)
• 4 AREAS OF TRANSITION PLANNING

  • Postsecondary education
  • Community Participation
  • Postsecondary employment needs
  • Residential outcomes
• TRANSITION PLANNING (6)

  • Preparing young adults for new roles and routines
  • Providing education to parents and community stakeholders (employers as well) about the young adults’ needs
  • Facilitating vocational and independent living skills development
  • Promoting self-determination
  • Facilitating social and community integration
  • Recommending assistive technology for work and living situations
• • Cover a broad range of skills to determine what the individual possesses or what his/her level of functioning
  • Acquire baseline data on the performance of an individual or child with special needs
  • Create a more specified or individualized plan that would facilitate a successful transition
  • Results of the assessment would also help in creating your goals that you would want your child/adolescent to achieve


  BRIGANCE TSI (Transition Skills Inventory)
• • An Act providing for the rehabilitation, self-development and self-reliance of disabled person and their integration into the mainstream of society and for other purposes.
  • States that no person shall be denied access to opportunities for suitable employment.


  RA 7277: Magna Carta for PWDs
• Basis for education practices for individuals with disabilities in the United States

  Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
• • Law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.
  • Governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to more than 7.5 million (as of school year 2018 19) eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.

  Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
• Preparatory activities designed to equip the learner with readiness skills for formal vocational training


  PREVOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM
• Focus of OT in Prevocational Training Programs (6)


  • Basic Life Skills
  • Task Skills
  • Social Skills
  • Development of Work Habits
  • Exploration of Interests (for them to have self-identity and would commit on the identified selves and that would influence their choice of jobs or careers)
  • Develop work behaviors, executive functions, gross and fine motor skills, and others in order for them to perform the various tasks demanded for them at work
• Objectives of Prevocational Training Programs (3)


  • Prepare individuals towards a work oriented program
  • Impart training and create opportunities of development of work related and basic work skills
  • Develop work personality through graded exposure and training in work situations
• Adolescence is the age when they are integrated into the society of adults
• Successful transition to adulthood is needed for self-sufficiency
• Prevocational training in adolescents with special needs gives them access to community life
• Prevocational Settings (4)


  Schools

  Hospitals

  Clinics

  Sheltered Workshops
• Training environment specially designed to accommodate PWD’s limitations

  Sheltered Workshops
• Prevocational Options (3)

  One on One

  Dyad

  Small Groups
• Human interaction typically progresses from one-on-one settings to dyads, small groups, and eventually larger groups due to the inherent need for collaboration and social interaction in various aspects of life.
• Prevocational Skill Targets (5)

  Task-related skills

  Social Skills

  Organizational Skills

  Math/Arithmetic Skills

  Safety Skills
• (Prevocational Skill Target)

  Also includes insurance, attention, and control

  Task-related Skills
• (Prevocational Skill Target)

  Interactions with others (includes colleagues, higher authority figures like bosses, and customers)

  Social Skills
• (Prevocational Skill Target)

  Organizing Materials

  Organizational Skills
• (Prevocational Skill Target)

  OTs can help enhance FMS, cognitive skills, visual perceptual skills, executive functions, and work behaviors

  Math/Arithmetic Skills
• (Prevocational Skill Target)

  Knowing Safety Signs

  Safety Skills
• Prevocational Classes (5)

  • Retail industry
  • Clerical work
  • Food service
  • Grocery industry
  • Material Handling
• (Prevocational Classes)

  • Selling / handling products
  • Basic tasks sorting, arranging, hanging, etc.

  Retail industry
• (Prevocational Classes)

  • Office work
  • Office Tasks - (papers) sorting, filing, alphabetizing
  • Using office tools: typing, stapling, staplers, punchers
  • Also includes the computer, photocopier, printer, scanner

  Clerical work
• (Prevocational Classes)

  • Sorting and bagging utensils (Takeout services)
  • Boxing
  • Serving in trays
  • Meal Preparations
  • Counting Change

  Food service
• (Prevocational Classes)

  • Stocking shelves
  • Sorting items
  • Stacking boxes

  Grocery industry
• (Prevocational Classes)

  • Manufacturing of goods
  • Manual handling of materials or use of tools or equipment to transfer goods

  Materials Handling
• Private, nonprofit, state or local government entities that provide employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

  sheltered workshops
• It is like actual work settings, but what they focus on is training.

  sheltered workshops
• They produce goods or products for training purposes and come with a generation of income.

  sheltered workshops
• A welfare oriented service without an employer employee relationship between the workshop operators and the trainees

  sheltered workshops