Empowerment for the Disabled

Course overview

OBJECTIVES 1. Define Empowerment and discuss several Empowerment Models 2. Describe guidelines and other system enhancements that facilitate personal empowerment 3. Describe the Self-Determined Career Development Model 4. Identify employment and career challenges encountered by people with disabilities 5. Describe the structured-discovery method of instruction used to train blind students at the Orientation Center. OUTLINE Article #1 Alternative views of empowerment: social services and civil rights - Editorial Article #2 How Empowerment Changed My Life Article #3 Enhancing Personal Empowerment of People with Psychiatric Disabilities Article #4 Self-Determined Career Development Article #5 Self-Determination and the Empowerment of People with Disabilities Article #6 Empowering People with Disabilities Through Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling