APSE CESP COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔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 - ✔✔Workplace culture can be defined as the "way of 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.
✔✔All people have the right to work and are entitled to equal access to employment in
the general workforce - ✔✔Employment First Imitative and Equal employment
Opportunity Commission
✔✔Zero Exclusion - ✔✔"All people who want to work are eligible for employment
services and receive help even if they: Have experienced job loss(as) in the past, Lose
a job(s) while enrolled in SE/IPS, Are still experiencing symptoms of mental illness,
Experience cognitive impairments (e.g., memory, problem-solving
difficulties), *Are still using alcohol or other drugs, Have a criminal history, Do not know
how to fill out an application or talk to employers, Do not have previous job training or
work experience, Are afraid they might not learn the job fast enough, Are afraid they
might not fit in with others (*The use of alcohol and other drugs may limit job choices
because many employers test for drug use. If job applicants can pass a drug test, their
choices of jobs typically increase.)"
✔✔Disability Etiquette - ✔✔If offering any assistance, always wait for a response and
then follow the individual's instructions. • When talking to a person with a disability, talk
directly to that individual, not the friend, companion or Sign Language interpreter who
may be present. • Respect all assistive devices (i.e. canes, wheelchairs, crutches,
communication boards) as personal property. Unless given permission, do not move,
play with, or use them. • Remember that people with disabilities are interested in the
same topics of conversations as nondisabled individuals. • When introduced to a person
with a disability, it is appropriate to offer to shake hands. People with limited hand use
or who wear artificial limbs can usually shake hands. (Shaking hands with your left hand
is an acceptable greeting.) • If talking with a person using a wheelchair for any length of
time, try to place yourself at their eye level. (This is to avoid stiff necks and "talking
down" to the individual.) • Remember to show your face while talking with someone who
is Deaf or hard of hearing. • Do not shout or raise your voice unless asked to do so. • If
greeting someone who is blind or has a visual impairment, identify yourself and those
who may be accompanying you. • Do not pet or make a service dog the focus of
conversation. • Let the individual know if you move or need to end the conversation. •
When interacting with a person who is visually impaired, follow their lead. If they need
assistance, they will ask. • Allow the person to negotiate their surroundings, e.g., finding
, the door handle, locating a chair, etc. • Treat adults as adults. Address people with
disabilities by their first name only when extending the same familiarity to all others.
✔✔Job Seeker strengths, interests, and Talents - ✔✔
✔✔Full inclusion in the general workforce - ✔✔A vision of society in which all persons
are viewed in terms of their abilities and are welcomed into the mainstream of
community life. The whole notion of community inclusion stresses relationships both
formal and informal, as well as, business and social. Yet, a segment of the general
public has the impression that people with disabilities are better served when they are
with other people with similar disabilities. This faulty notion persists, in part, due to the
creation of "special" services for people with disabilities and by not adequately
representing or connecting people with disabilities to the formal and informal social
structures. In a customer-driven approach, the customers of supported employment
services work with service providers in the marketing of the employment service.
Developing a marketing approach and materials with the customers of the service will
help to ensure that people with disabilities are represented in a positive manner to the
business community. In addition, the employment specialist needs to actively assist
customers in developing networks that are based on his or her desires, wants and,
needs.
✔✔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
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔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 - ✔✔Workplace culture can be defined as the "way of 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.
✔✔All people have the right to work and are entitled to equal access to employment in
the general workforce - ✔✔Employment First Imitative and Equal employment
Opportunity Commission
✔✔Zero Exclusion - ✔✔"All people who want to work are eligible for employment
services and receive help even if they: Have experienced job loss(as) in the past, Lose
a job(s) while enrolled in SE/IPS, Are still experiencing symptoms of mental illness,
Experience cognitive impairments (e.g., memory, problem-solving
difficulties), *Are still using alcohol or other drugs, Have a criminal history, Do not know
how to fill out an application or talk to employers, Do not have previous job training or
work experience, Are afraid they might not learn the job fast enough, Are afraid they
might not fit in with others (*The use of alcohol and other drugs may limit job choices
because many employers test for drug use. If job applicants can pass a drug test, their
choices of jobs typically increase.)"
✔✔Disability Etiquette - ✔✔If offering any assistance, always wait for a response and
then follow the individual's instructions. • When talking to a person with a disability, talk
directly to that individual, not the friend, companion or Sign Language interpreter who
may be present. • Respect all assistive devices (i.e. canes, wheelchairs, crutches,
communication boards) as personal property. Unless given permission, do not move,
play with, or use them. • Remember that people with disabilities are interested in the
same topics of conversations as nondisabled individuals. • When introduced to a person
with a disability, it is appropriate to offer to shake hands. People with limited hand use
or who wear artificial limbs can usually shake hands. (Shaking hands with your left hand
is an acceptable greeting.) • If talking with a person using a wheelchair for any length of
time, try to place yourself at their eye level. (This is to avoid stiff necks and "talking
down" to the individual.) • Remember to show your face while talking with someone who
is Deaf or hard of hearing. • Do not shout or raise your voice unless asked to do so. • If
greeting someone who is blind or has a visual impairment, identify yourself and those
who may be accompanying you. • Do not pet or make a service dog the focus of
conversation. • Let the individual know if you move or need to end the conversation. •
When interacting with a person who is visually impaired, follow their lead. If they need
assistance, they will ask. • Allow the person to negotiate their surroundings, e.g., finding
, the door handle, locating a chair, etc. • Treat adults as adults. Address people with
disabilities by their first name only when extending the same familiarity to all others.
✔✔Job Seeker strengths, interests, and Talents - ✔✔
✔✔Full inclusion in the general workforce - ✔✔A vision of society in which all persons
are viewed in terms of their abilities and are welcomed into the mainstream of
community life. The whole notion of community inclusion stresses relationships both
formal and informal, as well as, business and social. Yet, a segment of the general
public has the impression that people with disabilities are better served when they are
with other people with similar disabilities. This faulty notion persists, in part, due to the
creation of "special" services for people with disabilities and by not adequately
representing or connecting people with disabilities to the formal and informal social
structures. In a customer-driven approach, the customers of supported employment
services work with service providers in the marketing of the employment service.
Developing a marketing approach and materials with the customers of the service will
help to ensure that people with disabilities are represented in a positive manner to the
business community. In addition, the employment specialist needs to actively assist
customers in developing networks that are based on his or her desires, wants and,
needs.
✔✔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
