Community Based Instruction

1. Community Based Instruction

2. Community Based Instruction • Hiring practices covered by ADA • Ticket to Work Self-Sufficiency Program 1999 • Statistics show: • People with disabilities control $175 billion in discretionary spending • They are America’s largest minority group (20%) • 29% of all American families include a member with a disability: www.inclusion.org/index.html

3. Statistics show that employees with disabilities are highly motivated & productive • 97% above average safety records • 90% deliver average job performance • 86% have above average attendance • Every $1 spent in accommodations saves $34 in workers’ compensation, insurance and training costs (see website previous slide)

4. Statistics Cont. • 49 million Americans with disabilities and 60% are not working • Of those working, average earnings are 35% less than earnings for workers without disabilities • Information from the President’s Committee on Persons with Disabilities

5. Vocational Training: Legal Requirements • Training similar to vocational school • Is to benefit trainees • Regular employees are not displaced • Employer derives no immediate advantage, in fact may be impeded • Trainees are not entitled to employment • Trainees not entitled to wages

6. CBVI Requirements • No student may spend more than 215 hours on one job site during one school year or demonstrate independent performance for more than one session • All students supervised by certified teacher or designated school personnel (“job coach”)

7. CBVI Cont. • Data taken each day!!! • Progress toward independence • Vocations strengths and weaknesses • Needed adaptations • Compliance with labor laws and regulations (anecdotal records)

8. DOL Regulations • No participation prior to age 14 except volunteer in non-profit organizations • 14 & 15 year-olds may be trained in: office and clerical; cashier and retail shop duties; errand and delivery work • 14 & 15 year-olds can also be trained in kitchen work, car cleaning, dispensing oil and gas

9. DOL Cont. • 14 & 15 year-olds may NOT be trained in: • Manufacturing • Food processing • Commercial laundry and dry cleaning • Public messenger service • Transportation

10. DOL Cont. • 14 & 15 year-olds may NOT be trained in: • Cooking or baking • Power driven food preparation equipment • Loading or unloading of goods from trucks or conveyors • Any warehouse occupation except office, clerical jobs

11. 16 & 17 and Younger • NO training in: • Manufacturing and storing explosives • Motor vehicle driver or outside helper • Coal mining • Logging or sawmilling • Power driven housing and metal working machines • Power driven woodworking machines

12. 16 & 17 and Younger Cont. May NOT be trained in: Exposure to radioactive substances Slaughtering or meat packing Power driven bakery machines Power driven saws or paper product machines Wrecking, demolition, ship breaking operations Roofing, excavation operations

13. How are people with disabilities protected under ADA? • Responsibilities of applicant & employer: • Employer may ask questions about ABILITY to perform certain tasks and may ask the applicant to describe or DEMONSTRATE how function would be performed • Employers may NOT make any pre-employment inquiries about a disability, its nature and/or severity

14. ADA Cont. • ADA places responsibility of self-disclosure on individual with disability • Issue for teachers, trainers in teaching self-advocacy • Persons may explain their disability, medications, strengths, weaknesses, needed accommodations

15. Social Security Ticket to Work Act, 1999 • Dec. 17, 1999; simply removes barriers that require people with disabilities who desire to work to choose between health care coverage and work • Assists persons with disabilities to participate in workforce • 2 year grace period: www.ssa.gov

16. Remember • IEP goal(s) can include/ITP • Failure is an event…not a person • Assistive tech needs to be addressed, used • Student eligibility only until 22nd year