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Sheltered workshops and individual employment: Perspectives of consumers, families, and staff members.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sheltered workshops and individual employment: Perspectives of consumers, families, and staff members./
Author:	Migliore, Alberto.
Description:	214 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2956.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08A.
Subject:	Sociology, Public and Social Welfare. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3229571
ISBN:	9780542811432

Sheltered workshops and individual employment: Perspectives of consumers, families, and staff members.
Migliore, Alberto.

Sheltered workshops and individual employment: Perspectives of consumers, families, and staff members. - 214 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2956.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2006.

This dissertation discusses factors that contribute to the gap between policy and practice in the area of disability day services. Despite the indications of national and state policy promoting individual employment for people with disabilities, the majority of adults with developmental disabilities (76%) are served by facility-based services such as sheltered workshops (Braddock et al., 2005). The discussion is based on results from a survey involving 210 adults with intellectual disabilities who attended 19 workshops, their respective families (N = 185), and staff members of the workshops (N = 224). The research questions focused on: (a) respondents' preferences between workshops and individual employment; (b) respondents' perceptions about the consumers' ability to perform in individual employment; (c) considerations influencing respondents' choices between workshops and individual employment, and (d) the role of professionals encouraging consumers and their families in their choices about employment.

ISBN: 9780542811432Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017909
Sociology, Public and Social Welfare.

Sheltered workshops and individual employment: Perspectives of consumers, families, and staff members.
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520 $a This dissertation discusses factors that contribute to the gap between policy and practice in the area of disability day services. Despite the indications of national and state policy promoting individual employment for people with disabilities, the majority of adults with developmental disabilities (76%) are served by facility-based services such as sheltered workshops (Braddock et al., 2005). The discussion is based on results from a survey involving 210 adults with intellectual disabilities who attended 19 workshops, their respective families (N = 185), and staff members of the workshops (N = 224). The research questions focused on: (a) respondents' preferences between workshops and individual employment; (b) respondents' perceptions about the consumers' ability to perform in individual employment; (c) considerations influencing respondents' choices between workshops and individual employment, and (d) the role of professionals encouraging consumers and their families in their choices about employment.
520 $a Results showed the following: (a) the majority of respondents (66% to 74% across consumers, families, and staff) either would like individual employment or at least consider it as an option; (b) the majority of respondents (75% to 82% across consumers, families, and staff) believe that consumers can perform in individual employment, although some of the consumers may need either some or intense support; (c) a large number of respondents (50% to 69% across consumers, families, and staff) consider the following issues to be important or very important concerns in the choice between workshops and individual employment: transportation, long-term placement, safety, work hours, Social Security benefits, consumers' work skills, and social environment; and, finally, (d) professionals play a relatively minimal role in encouraging consumers and families to choose individual employment.
520 $a Based on its discovery of the consumers' and families' preferences for individual employment, this study supports system change policies in the area of day services for adults with intellectual disabilities. In order to make individual employment the first choice, however, a number of concerns need to be addressed. Moreover, professionals need to be more involved in the system change efforts. Caution should be used if generalizing the results because participants were selected in a non-random fashion.
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