The Kentucky ASD Employment Pilot Project
AO/GR 2012 Conference. Jackie Marquette, PhD.
Presentation Abstract/Bio Website
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) practices are often ineffective and distressing for ASD clients. The Capability Approach (CA), is a new tool to assess obstacles and create employment supports. CA has idetntified 24 vocational priorities critical to the young adult’s job capability. The Broad Creative Support System (BCS) integrates supports to minimize obstacles. The CA and the BCS can provide a broader scope of support analysis, interests/strengths that can enable job capability.