Don't Wait Until High School to Prepare Your Special Needs Child for a Successful School-to-work Transition
By age 10, a youngster's approach to life and life's challenges begins to gel. Elementary School is the right time to start developing the skills to successfully handle the challenges he or she will eventually face as a job seeker - and as a job holder - with a disability.
This comprehensive blueprint empowers parents and counselors to prepare youngsters (ages 5-10) with disabilities to gain meaningful employment as adults. It is based on National Career Development Guidelines. In this book, you will discover:
- How early career planning can benefit your child's long-term success
- 9 strategies for helping your youngster grow in self-confidence
- 8 strategies for discovering disability's competitive edge in tomorrow's job market
- How to help your child achieve key career preparation milestones and build a brighter future
- Practical steps to prepare special needs kids for a seamless school-to-work transition, three graduations from now
- How to become a trusted resource as a Career Counselor for parents of children with special needs
Author Jim Hasse, who has life-long athetoid cerebral palsy, shares the wisdom he gained as a practicing, certified Global Career Development Facilitator for six years and as a 33-year corporate executive, 10 years of which were at the vice president level for a Fortune 500 organization.
Hasse says, "My disabilities, while they have made life tougher for me to live, have also, within certain contexts, become an aggregate advantage for me in gaining meaningful employment in integrated settings. My disability has given me an edge in developing my career. Career Book 1 shows what worked for me in elementary school."
Let this unique and informative resource, guide you on the first mile of your journey, as you constructively mentor your son or daughter on the road to eventual career success.
Check out the entire five-book series to help your child navigate the various stages of development along the way to fulfill her vocational dreams.
Jim Hasse, ABC, GCDF www.jimhasse.com/properties.html Jim Hasse is the founder of www.cerebral-palsy-career-builders.com, the premier coaching guide for parents of CP youngsters 7 to 27 years old. He established his own Web community business in 1994, after working 29 years for a Fortune 500 company in corporate communications. He was the firm's Vice President of Corporate communication for 10 of those years. He's the owner of Hasse Communication Counseling, LLC, which develops win-win partnerships for champions of disability employment. Hasse is a Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF). He has been managing online interactive communities to generate and share career management insight for individuals who have a disability since 1997. Between 1999 and 2009, he was responsible for all the online content of eSight Careers Network, a free service of The Associated Blind, Inc., New York City. As eSight's Senior Content Developer, he wrote, assigned and edited more than 1,300 articles about disability employment issues. Between 1997 and 2001, Hasse developed tell-us-your-story.com, a now discontinued web site where people with disabilities shared their personal-experience stories and which provided a launching pad for eSight Careers Network. A 1965 honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism, Hasse is an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) by the International Association of Business Communicators, San Francisco, CA. In 1994, he received the Cooperative Spirit Award from the Cooperative Communicators Association (CCA), a national organization for professional communications employed by cooperatives, and the Cooperative Builder Award from the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives, a state-wide trade association. In 1995, he received CCA's most prestigious honor, the H.E. Klinefelter Award for distinguished service in cooperative communications. Hasse is the author of 12 eBooks, five paperback books and three audiobooks plus "Break Out: Finding Freedom When You Don't Quite Fit The Mold" (Quixote Press, 1996) a memoir of 51 short stories about disability awareness. His latest hardcover book is "Perfectly Able: How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities" (AMACOM, 2011), a disability recruitment guidebook for hiring managers which he compiled and edited for Lighthouse Guild International, New York City.
