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Debunking four common steryotypes about kids with special needs

Often what is known about disabled children comes from television and movies. This information often is false and exaggerated and leads people to believe in stereotypes. Stereotypes can be destructive to the relationships between children and new, inexperienced caregivers.

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Everyone Can Work Bundle

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Includes: Off to Work Curriculum, Everyone Can Work, Everybody's Working, and It's Working videos!

Program - Includes: Off to Work Curriculum, Everyone Can Work, Everybody's Working, and It's Working videos. Off to Work Curriculum, authored by Drs. Paul Wehman and Pamela Sherron, helps you prepare people with disabilities to succeed at competitive or supported employment. Covers finding a job, job placement, keeping a job, job training, and advocacy. Dozens of reproducible forms are included, like: Consumer assessments, ability assessments, job analysis forms, job compatibility forms and preemployment contracts. Focuses on neurological disabilities. 258 pgs., 1996. Everyone Can Work Video Everyone Can Work Video is for parents and professionals. It's an intimate look into the lives of five successful supported employees. Features compelling interviews with workers, job coaches, family, employers, and Dr. Paul Wehman, a leading researcher in the supported employment field. The biographical format covers key issues, like self advocacy, job accommodation and job coaching. 55 min., closed captioned, 1996. It's Working Video It's Working Video is for you to show potential employers. It briefly but clearly shows how people with significant disabilities can be valuable employees. It points out advantages of supported employment, like access to job coaches and money saving opportunities. Includes interviews with satisfied employers who have become advocates of the supported employment process. Ideal for transition coordinators to show potential employers. 11 min., closed captioned, 1997. Everybody's Working Video Everybody's Working Video shows students how they can become successful employees. It features success stories of five employees with disabilities. For example, Larry took advantage of opportunities for advancement; Bob has made innovations at the greenhouse where he works; Maurice overcame skepticism to become a valued employee, and Sue made the decision to leave one job and pursue a new career path. Each biography triggers discussion on important employment issues. 22 min., closed captioned, 1997. Also available on the CD-ROM entitled Success Stories at Work.

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Everyone Can Work Bundle

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Assentive Communication Book

To encourage communication and making choices try taking pictures of healthy favourite snacks and putting them in the Whoozit Photo Album. When it's snack time let your child show you what he or she wants!

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