DDA Vocational Training & Supported Employment 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is 'job carving' in the context of supported employment?
- Removing tasks from an existing job description that the employer no longer needs done
- Identifying specific tasks from one or more positions and creating a new job description around an individual's abilities (Correct answer)
- Limiting the hours an individual works to prevent burnout
- Creating a separate work area within a business for employees with disabilities
Correct answer: Identifying specific tasks from one or more positions and creating a new job description around an individual's abilities
Job carving involves selecting specific tasks from existing job descriptions to create a new position tailored to the skills and abilities of the individual with a disability.
Question 2: What is the purpose of a task analysis in vocational training?
- To assess an employer's willingness to hire individuals with disabilities
- To break a complex job task into small, sequential steps that can be taught systematically (Correct answer)
- To determine whether an individual is legally eligible for supported employment funding
- To evaluate the physical demands of a job for ADA accommodation purposes
Correct answer: To break a complex job task into small, sequential steps that can be taught systematically
Task analysis breaks down complex job duties into small, teachable steps so that a job coach can systematically instruct and prompt the worker through each step.
Question 3: What does the 'enclave model' of supported employment involve?
- A single individual with a disability working independently in a community business
- A small group of individuals with disabilities working together at a community business site, supervised by a job coach (Correct answer)
- A segregated workshop setting where individuals work only with other people with disabilities
- An online employment platform exclusively for individuals with developmental disabilities
Correct answer: A small group of individuals with disabilities working together at a community business site, supervised by a job coach
The enclave model places a small group of workers with disabilities in an integrated community business where they are supervised by a supported employment specialist.
Question 4: What is the SSA Ticket to Work program designed to do for individuals with disabilities?
- Provide a one-time payment to employers who hire individuals with disabilities
- Allow Social Security beneficiaries to test their ability to work without immediately losing benefits (Correct answer)
- Fund job coaching services directly to supported employment providers
- Replace Medicaid Waiver funding for vocational services
Correct answer: Allow Social Security beneficiaries to test their ability to work without immediately losing benefits
The Ticket to Work program allows Social Security disability beneficiaries to explore employment while maintaining certain benefits, reducing the fear of losing income support when working.
Question 5: How should a Direct Support Professional (DSP) apply person-centered planning principles when supporting vocational goals?
- By selecting job placements based on available openings that require the fewest supports
- By ensuring employment goals reflect the individual's own interests, strengths, and preferences (Correct answer)
- By prioritizing jobs that keep the individual within a supervised day program setting
- By following a standardized vocational curriculum regardless of individual preferences
Correct answer: By ensuring employment goals reflect the individual's own interests, strengths, and preferences
Person-centered planning requires that vocational goals are driven by the individual's own voice, interests, and desired outcomes rather than system convenience.
Question 6: What is the term for a formal work experience used to assess a person's vocational skills, behaviors, and preferences in a real or simulated work environment?
- Job shadowing
- Situational assessment (Correct answer)
- Career exploration seminar
- Supported employment intake
Correct answer: Situational assessment
A situational assessment evaluates the individual's work behaviors, skills, and interests by observing them in an actual or closely replicated work environment.
Question 7: What does 'competitive integrated employment' mean under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)?
- Employment in a sheltered workshop that pays competitive piece-rate wages
- Employment in a setting where workers with disabilities compete against each other for positions
- Employment at minimum wage or higher, in a setting with non-disabled coworkers, where the individual is paid directly by the employer (Correct answer)
- A paid internship program available only through vocational rehabilitation agencies
Correct answer: Employment at minimum wage or higher, in a setting with non-disabled coworkers, where the individual is paid directly by the employer
Competitive integrated employment means working for at least minimum wage alongside coworkers without disabilities, with the employee paid directly by the employer — this is the WIOA standard outcome.
DDA Vocational Training & Supported Employment 2
What is 'job carving' in the context of supported employment?