APSE CESP UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED
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✔✔Self-determination and empowerment - ✔✔Self Determination construct refers to
both the right and capacity of individuals to exert control over and direct their lives. By
giving them back their freedom of choice they are empowered to do as they wish and
not follow a career path that has been chosen for them
✔✔Providing services outside institutional and workshop settings - ✔✔This can include
but is not limited to working with those still in school or working with those in the
community at a Supported employment or Job Coaching level.
✔✔Involvement of Job seeker in the employment process as a collaborative effort the
includes paid and non-paid supports - ✔✔It is important to involve all members of the
team and support members in the employment process in order to find the best fit for
the job seeker and their support team
✔✔Impact to employment services history on current practice - ✔✔
✔✔Legislation and regulations related to employment - ✔✔
✔✔Funding sources for employment services - ✔✔US Department of Education,
Projects with Industry (PWI), Department of Labor Grants, Medicaid Waiver, Social
Security , State Funded Waivers by County OVR, ODP, Public
intellectual/developmental disability agencies, public mental health agencies, and public
vocational rehabilitation agencies
✔✔Rights and responsibilities related to disclosure of disability/ Counseling job seeker's
on disability discloser - ✔✔"As a person with a disability, you have disclosure
protections as well as significant responsibilities to yourself and to your employers. You
are entitled to:
Have information about your disability treated confidentially and respectfully; Seek
information about hiring practices from any organization; Choose to disclose your
disability at any time during the employment process; Receive reasonable
accommodations for an interview; Be considered for a position based on your skill and
merit; and Have respectful questioning about your disability for the purpose of
determining whether you need accommodations and if so, what kind.
You have the responsibility to:
Disclose your need for any work-related reasonable accommodations; Bring your skills
and merits to the table; and Be truthful, self-determined, and proactive."
✔✔Practices unique to, school-to-work - ✔✔Provides services to students to help
prepare them for competitive employment through in-class and practical instruction, pre-
employment skills training, job touring, job shadowing and community-based
assessment.
, ✔✔Rapid engagement in the employment process - ✔✔As soon as people express an
interest in employment, service team members connect them with employment
specialists. In two to three weeks, specialists are helping consumers explore the job
market, fill out applications, and interview with potential employers. Specialists do not
require individuals to complete pre-employment assessments, training, workshops, and
intermediate work experiences. A rapid job-search honors each person's desire to work.
✔✔Limitations of traditional vocational evaluation for job seekers with significant
disabilities - ✔✔
✔✔Motivational interviewing techniques - ✔✔Helps people identify their: Employment
goal, Recognize discrepancies, Structure self identified experiences or items necessary
to reach their employment goal, and Solidifies goal ownership, Activate clients,Help
them sustain employment through learned self motivational techniques... Open-ended
Questions, Affirmations, Rolling with Resistance, Avoid arguing, Summarize, Develop
Discrepancy, Support Self-Efficacy, Empathy
✔✔Interviews with job seeker and others familiar with his/her abilities and work history -
✔✔In discovery, information is gathered about an individual's interests, strengths, the
types of supports that are most effective, the skills the individual has, and the types of
environments and activities where this person is at his/her best. This information is
gathered in a series or interviews, observations, and activities that occur in natural
environments and that are typical to the individual. Individuals are not "assessed" in
artificial work settings to determine employability, and no psychometric testing or IQ
score is needed or used. Rather, discovery is used to focus on getting individuals into
the work arena, be that wage or self-employment, as quickly as possible where they can
begin the more long-term tasks of sculpting a career.
✔✔Impact of job seeker's records and collecting pertinent employment information - ✔✔
✔✔Job seeker in his/her current daily routines and environments - ✔✔
✔✔Benefit analysis for job seeker - ✔✔An informed choice benefits analysis (prior going
into job development) or an in-depth benefits analysis (once a job has been obtained). A
report is generated that described the affect work may have on benefits received such
as SSI or SSDI.
✔✔Strategies to reduce or eliminate entitlement benefits - ✔✔
✔✔Non-work needs that may impact successful employment - ✔✔Transportation,
Counseling, Food Assistance, Doctors appointments, Housing etc.
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✔✔Self-determination and empowerment - ✔✔Self Determination construct refers to
both the right and capacity of individuals to exert control over and direct their lives. By
giving them back their freedom of choice they are empowered to do as they wish and
not follow a career path that has been chosen for them
✔✔Providing services outside institutional and workshop settings - ✔✔This can include
but is not limited to working with those still in school or working with those in the
community at a Supported employment or Job Coaching level.
✔✔Involvement of Job seeker in the employment process as a collaborative effort the
includes paid and non-paid supports - ✔✔It is important to involve all members of the
team and support members in the employment process in order to find the best fit for
the job seeker and their support team
✔✔Impact to employment services history on current practice - ✔✔
✔✔Legislation and regulations related to employment - ✔✔
✔✔Funding sources for employment services - ✔✔US Department of Education,
Projects with Industry (PWI), Department of Labor Grants, Medicaid Waiver, Social
Security , State Funded Waivers by County OVR, ODP, Public
intellectual/developmental disability agencies, public mental health agencies, and public
vocational rehabilitation agencies
✔✔Rights and responsibilities related to disclosure of disability/ Counseling job seeker's
on disability discloser - ✔✔"As a person with a disability, you have disclosure
protections as well as significant responsibilities to yourself and to your employers. You
are entitled to:
Have information about your disability treated confidentially and respectfully; Seek
information about hiring practices from any organization; Choose to disclose your
disability at any time during the employment process; Receive reasonable
accommodations for an interview; Be considered for a position based on your skill and
merit; and Have respectful questioning about your disability for the purpose of
determining whether you need accommodations and if so, what kind.
You have the responsibility to:
Disclose your need for any work-related reasonable accommodations; Bring your skills
and merits to the table; and Be truthful, self-determined, and proactive."
✔✔Practices unique to, school-to-work - ✔✔Provides services to students to help
prepare them for competitive employment through in-class and practical instruction, pre-
employment skills training, job touring, job shadowing and community-based
assessment.
, ✔✔Rapid engagement in the employment process - ✔✔As soon as people express an
interest in employment, service team members connect them with employment
specialists. In two to three weeks, specialists are helping consumers explore the job
market, fill out applications, and interview with potential employers. Specialists do not
require individuals to complete pre-employment assessments, training, workshops, and
intermediate work experiences. A rapid job-search honors each person's desire to work.
✔✔Limitations of traditional vocational evaluation for job seekers with significant
disabilities - ✔✔
✔✔Motivational interviewing techniques - ✔✔Helps people identify their: Employment
goal, Recognize discrepancies, Structure self identified experiences or items necessary
to reach their employment goal, and Solidifies goal ownership, Activate clients,Help
them sustain employment through learned self motivational techniques... Open-ended
Questions, Affirmations, Rolling with Resistance, Avoid arguing, Summarize, Develop
Discrepancy, Support Self-Efficacy, Empathy
✔✔Interviews with job seeker and others familiar with his/her abilities and work history -
✔✔In discovery, information is gathered about an individual's interests, strengths, the
types of supports that are most effective, the skills the individual has, and the types of
environments and activities where this person is at his/her best. This information is
gathered in a series or interviews, observations, and activities that occur in natural
environments and that are typical to the individual. Individuals are not "assessed" in
artificial work settings to determine employability, and no psychometric testing or IQ
score is needed or used. Rather, discovery is used to focus on getting individuals into
the work arena, be that wage or self-employment, as quickly as possible where they can
begin the more long-term tasks of sculpting a career.
✔✔Impact of job seeker's records and collecting pertinent employment information - ✔✔
✔✔Job seeker in his/her current daily routines and environments - ✔✔
✔✔Benefit analysis for job seeker - ✔✔An informed choice benefits analysis (prior going
into job development) or an in-depth benefits analysis (once a job has been obtained). A
report is generated that described the affect work may have on benefits received such
as SSI or SSDI.
✔✔Strategies to reduce or eliminate entitlement benefits - ✔✔
✔✔Non-work needs that may impact successful employment - ✔✔Transportation,
Counseling, Food Assistance, Doctors appointments, Housing etc.
