Intended for human resources and supervisory personnel, this brief video, which comes with 75 loose pages of training material, is divided into four sections: 1) be prepared to make it work, 2) using an agency job specialist, 3) training techniques at work, and 4) supervising success. Via interviews, situational scenarios, checklists, tips and techniques, and quizzes and exercises, we are taken through orientation, training, and supervisory techniques (which can actually apply to nondisabled employees, too), and shown how to effectively utilize agency job specialists. While the video is well done and straightforward (yes, sometimes accommodations are required, and sometimes an alternate training method must be found), and the printed materials are well written, sensible and organized, this production's particular formatting and its steep price would not work well in an open-to-all lending situation. Although the video could stand on its own, those helpful-though-loose training pages would be far too difficult for librarians to keep track of. At the conclusion, the entire program is repeated with audio description and open captioning. Also including a second, 4-minute-long tape entitled "Situations in the Workplace" (not seen), this kit is recommended for its target audience, but not as part of a general lending collection. Aud: C, P. (K. Glaser)
Supervising an Employee with a Disability
(1999) 24 min. $195 (includes training manual and additional 4-minute video). Irene M. Ward & Associates (dist. by Program Development Associates). PPR. Closed captioned. Vol. 14, Issue 5
Supervising an Employee with a Disability
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