Get a Job Curriculum

Get a Job Curriculum teaches students with disabilities job-related social and self-management skills for the workplace and home environments.

To be successful in getting and keeping a job, students with disabilities need interview skills, social skills in a variety of areas, and most of all preparedness for the many and varied challenges of a job setting. As a result, they need lots of time to learn and practice vocational skills.

Key Features and Concepts

The Get a Job Curriculum is a functional curriculum that: 

• Teaches skills for successfully getting and maintaining a job 
• Supports review and assessment of videotaped interview skills
  
• Key concepts include:
  • Self-examining personal strengths and weaknesses
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Self-confidence and assertiveness
  • Advocacy
  • Accepting responsibility 

Co-authored by speech-language pathologist Corinne Thomas-Kersting and special education teacher and occupational therapist Dona Schumacher, 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.

Covered spiral bound book, includes downloadable PDF.

View a sample of the Get a Job Curriculum.