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Discusses the principles of "universal design" as strategies for One-Stop Career Centers that serve a broad customer pool. Strategies benefit many groups and reinforce the concept of an inclusive setting that welcomes and celebrates diversity.
This video talks about augmentated/alternative communications systems and also about access systems and how we would augmentated commnicative systems, computers, electronic aids for daily living.
Assistive Technology Programs at the RIC consists of the Wheelchair Seating Center where they do evaluations and training with Power and manual wheelchairs and seating system. Rehabilitation Engineering will do Custom equipment and Adapt existing equipment.
Healthcare Interpreting Curriculum Information
Manual for ASL/English Interpreting Mentoring
The following videos are samples of ASL translation and interpretation of some of the songs most commonly heard in schools. The videos are not intended to be definitive interpretations of these songs; they are examples of how three different signers approach the same task. They are intended for the use of educational interpreters.
Training for state rehabilitation agency supervisors. Stresses meeting needs of customers by getting the technical work of a unit done on time with available budget, materials, and manpower in a way that meets or exceeds quality standards by directing others rather than doing it yourself.
Training for rehabilitation professionals. Focuses on the vocational implications of working with consumers who have a psychiatric disability and another significant disability -- substance abuse (MICA). Preparation for skills needed to serve consumers with multiple disabilities to develop vocational plans and provide support for multiple complicating vocational barriers.
This document identifies and includes strategies to impact a broad range of consumers with hearing loss and is an excellent resource to assist states with the development and improvement of rehabilitation services. It is also a model for building or restructuring state programs for individuals with all types of hearing loss.
GAO provides information on the number of young adults with serious mental illness and their demographic characteristics, the challenges they face, how selected states assist them, and how the federal government supports states in serving these young adults. Also discusses how the states coordinate programs that can assist them.