APSE CESP EXAMS SCRIPT UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Natural Supports - ✔✔Supports from supervisors and co-workers occurring in the
workplace to assist employees with disabilities to perform their jobs, including supports
already provided by employers for all l e employees. These mentoring, supervision
(ongoing feed natural supports may be both formal and informal, and include mentoring,
supervision (ongoing feedback on job performance, training (learning a new job skill
with coworker) and coworkers socializing with employees with disabilities at breaks or
after work.
✔✔Person-Centered Planning - ✔✔An ongoing problem- solving process used to help
people with disabilities plan for their future. Groups of people focus on an individual and
that person's vision of what they would like to do in the future. Identifies opportunities for
the focus person to develop personal relationships, participate in their community,
increase control over their own lives, and develop the skills and abilities needed to
achieve these goals. It depends on the commitment of a team of individuals who care
about the focus person. These individuals take action to make sure that the strategies
discussed in planning meetings are implemented.
✔✔People First Language - ✔✔Represents more respectful, accurate means of
communicating. People with disabilities are not their diagnoses or disabilities; they
people, first.
✔✔Systematic Instruction - ✔✔Materials and instruction organized to follow the logical
order of the language. The sequence of the instruction proceeds methodically from the
easiest and most basic elements to more difficult and complex material.
✔✔Task Analysis - ✔✔The process of breaking down a job into smaller steps for the
purpose of teaching the job an employee in achievable parts over time.
✔✔Vocational Assessment - ✔✔Formal and informal processes used to explore an
individual's interests, abilities, and aptitudes in order to identify vocational assets,
barriers, support needs and career potential.
✔✔Workplace Culture - ✔✔Defined as the "way life" for those in a particular workplace.
This has many elements including: laws, language, fashion, authorities, power
relationships, conventions, conflict management processes, dispute resolution
processes.
✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔If a person is hard of hearing, do not come from
behind and tap them on the shoulder
✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔Use a professional tone of voice and manner of
speech that is appropriate for each person's age.
, ✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔Find out a person's preferred communication
style and use it.
✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔Find out how a person prefers to socialize and
engage with others, instead of trying to 'build' social skills following only your own
perception.
✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔If person uses a scooter or wheelchair, do not
hover over them and do not lean on their chair/scooter, Also do not move their
chair/scooter without them asking.
✔✔Fair Labor Standards Act - ✔✔Allowed sub-minimum wage
✔✔Fair Labor Standards Act - ✔✔Allowed entities holding "special wage certificates" to
pay their disabled workers less than the federal minimum wage, while establishing a
minimum wage, overtime pay requirements, and child labor laws for all other entities.
✔✔Fair Labor Standards Act - ✔✔Coincided with an enormous increase in sheltered
workshop programs nationally, based on time studies of productivity applied to the
prevailing wage of a nondisabled person. (assumed 100 % productive )
✔✔Fair Labor Standards Act - ✔✔1938
✔✔Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔Addresses Vocational Rehabilitation.
✔✔Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔1973
✔✔Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔Addresses discrimination of people with disabilities for the
first time. Qualified persons seeking employment could not be discriminated against
based on their disability.
✔✔Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔Amendment 1986 - defines Supported Employment as a
"legitimate rehabilitation outcome."
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act - ✔✔Addresses civil rights of people with disabilities.
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act - ✔✔Our nation's recent civil rights law which
extends the non-discrimination protections of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to all other
aspects of society.
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act - ✔✔Enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice and
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission & Dept. of Justice.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Natural Supports - ✔✔Supports from supervisors and co-workers occurring in the
workplace to assist employees with disabilities to perform their jobs, including supports
already provided by employers for all l e employees. These mentoring, supervision
(ongoing feed natural supports may be both formal and informal, and include mentoring,
supervision (ongoing feedback on job performance, training (learning a new job skill
with coworker) and coworkers socializing with employees with disabilities at breaks or
after work.
✔✔Person-Centered Planning - ✔✔An ongoing problem- solving process used to help
people with disabilities plan for their future. Groups of people focus on an individual and
that person's vision of what they would like to do in the future. Identifies opportunities for
the focus person to develop personal relationships, participate in their community,
increase control over their own lives, and develop the skills and abilities needed to
achieve these goals. It depends on the commitment of a team of individuals who care
about the focus person. These individuals take action to make sure that the strategies
discussed in planning meetings are implemented.
✔✔People First Language - ✔✔Represents more respectful, accurate means of
communicating. People with disabilities are not their diagnoses or disabilities; they
people, first.
✔✔Systematic Instruction - ✔✔Materials and instruction organized to follow the logical
order of the language. The sequence of the instruction proceeds methodically from the
easiest and most basic elements to more difficult and complex material.
✔✔Task Analysis - ✔✔The process of breaking down a job into smaller steps for the
purpose of teaching the job an employee in achievable parts over time.
✔✔Vocational Assessment - ✔✔Formal and informal processes used to explore an
individual's interests, abilities, and aptitudes in order to identify vocational assets,
barriers, support needs and career potential.
✔✔Workplace Culture - ✔✔Defined as the "way life" for those in a particular workplace.
This has many elements including: laws, language, fashion, authorities, power
relationships, conventions, conflict management processes, dispute resolution
processes.
✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔If a person is hard of hearing, do not come from
behind and tap them on the shoulder
✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔Use a professional tone of voice and manner of
speech that is appropriate for each person's age.
, ✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔Find out a person's preferred communication
style and use it.
✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔Find out how a person prefers to socialize and
engage with others, instead of trying to 'build' social skills following only your own
perception.
✔✔Example of Disability Etiquette - ✔✔If person uses a scooter or wheelchair, do not
hover over them and do not lean on their chair/scooter, Also do not move their
chair/scooter without them asking.
✔✔Fair Labor Standards Act - ✔✔Allowed sub-minimum wage
✔✔Fair Labor Standards Act - ✔✔Allowed entities holding "special wage certificates" to
pay their disabled workers less than the federal minimum wage, while establishing a
minimum wage, overtime pay requirements, and child labor laws for all other entities.
✔✔Fair Labor Standards Act - ✔✔Coincided with an enormous increase in sheltered
workshop programs nationally, based on time studies of productivity applied to the
prevailing wage of a nondisabled person. (assumed 100 % productive )
✔✔Fair Labor Standards Act - ✔✔1938
✔✔Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔Addresses Vocational Rehabilitation.
✔✔Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔1973
✔✔Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔Addresses discrimination of people with disabilities for the
first time. Qualified persons seeking employment could not be discriminated against
based on their disability.
✔✔Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔Amendment 1986 - defines Supported Employment as a
"legitimate rehabilitation outcome."
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act - ✔✔Addresses civil rights of people with disabilities.
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act - ✔✔Our nation's recent civil rights law which
extends the non-discrimination protections of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to all other
aspects of society.
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act - ✔✔Enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice and
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission & Dept. of Justice.
