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Home on the range
- Author:
- SURRIDGE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 13(2), March/April 2013, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
MINT, a job coaching scheme in Norwich, works with young people aged between 16 and 25-years-old who have learning disabilities, mental health problems, low academic skills or other barriers to work. The scheme provides training for young people and also works to build and maintain good relationships with local employers. The article describes how MINT work and provides details of one of their success stories where a young man with learning disabilities secured paid work in the retail sector. (Original abstract)
Off to work
- Author:
- CLARK Linzi
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, April 2011, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Supported Employment Team at Bradford District Care Trust provides training for people with learning disabilities to help them gain employment and challenges the negative attitudes of employers. This article reports on their work and the people they have helped.
Linking training and employment in a creative environment
- Author:
- REMFRY Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 21(3), 2008, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author reports on Poetry in Wood, an art and woodwork, training and employment project for adults with learning disabilities based in Spitalfields, London.
Carving out a future
- Author:
- LODGE Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 21(3), 2008, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Job carving involves breaking a job down into small tasks or components. Instead of employing on person to do all the tasks, a number of people are employed to do the parts they are skilled or able to do. The author, from Link Employment Services, discusses their experience of using job carving to recruit people with learning disabilities.
Provider focus: PentaHact
- Author:
- FREDERICK Cedric
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 1, Summer 2005, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
Describes the work of PentaHact. The service provides support to people with learning disabilities in north east London and East Anglia and runs a project 'Lifeworks Learn to Earn' which provides training and helps them find employment.
Triumphant return in a new role
- Author:
- CARLISLE Daloni
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 5.11.97, 1997, pp.77-80.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses how the role of the learning disabilities nurse has changed over the past ten years.
Paid work and intellectual disability
- Author:
- REID Patricia M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 22(2), June 1997, pp.87-96.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes a survey in New Zealand in which selected agencies were asked to identify adults with intellectual disabilities who had paid community-based work. Agencies forwarded invitations to adults whom they considered were successfully employed. Seventeen workers responded and were interviewed on how they obtained and learned their job and initial and ongoing support. Themes such as independence at work, the continued need for links with formal support, choices in lifestyle opportunities and lack of career path options are discussed in this article. Strategies leading to better opportunities and greater employment rates of adults with intellectual disabilities are offered.
Training caters for special needs
- Author:
- ARKIN Anat
- Journal article citation:
- People Management, 10.8.95, 1995, pp.32-33.
An increasing, number of schemes exist to support people with learning disabilities in employment. Reports on a project that goes further, combining off-the-job training in catering and life skills with a taste of work in a cafe.
Jobs with the boys
- Author:
- HOUGHTON Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 8.4.94, 1994, p.14.
Looks at the different forms that supported employment for people with learning disabilities can take. Contrasts the model of one individual in an employment setting with support staff to help them with the concept of a social firm where a number of people with learning disabilities work together.
Systematic Instruction for Training in Employment (SITE)
- Author:
- STEELE Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 35, Autumn 1994, pp.11-12.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Describes Systematic Instruction for Training in Employment (SITE), a new approach which offers new employment possibilities to people with learning disabilities.