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Barb, In Ohio we use the Rehabilitation Act definition which includes the stipulation that the work be done in integrated environments. On 5 Apr 2007 at 21:18, Dennis, Lawrence wrote: > > Bob would you answer this for me thanks. > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Guy, Barbara [ED] > Sent: Thu 4/5/2007 12:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NPSO]: defining competitive employment > National Post School Outcome Data Community of Practice > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi everybody - I've finally subscribed to this community of practice as I > need some input to guide > Iowa's reporting of % of students in competitive employment one year after > high school for > reporting on OSEP Indicator B-13. > > Iowa is in the process of finalizing our survey before this spring's > administration of the 1 year > follow-up. In doing so, we want to make sure that we can identify students > who are competitively > employed. Our stakeholder group is pretty split on their philosophies of what > needs to be > considered when making the decision whether the employment is > competitive.Their preference > right now is to incorporate various components of the definition within our > survey so that we can > actually use different formulas to choose the most appropriate definition. > > We've done the research on the various definitions - including RSA and think > we have everything > in our survey EXCEPT something that gets to the inclusiveness of the work > site. I've looked at the > PSO questions and a few others including NLTS2. Our difficulty is that we > survey both youth with > and without disabilities so have to be careful with our wording so that > everybody understands it > and it applies to most people. (In this sense we're leaning more towards an > adaptation of the > NLTS2 question which asks: At your job, do any of the other workers have > disabilities?). > > We would like to know, however, if there is a better way?Specifically, our > questions are: > > 1. What definition of competitive employment will your state be using to > report Indicator B-14? > Does it include inclusiveness of the work site? > > 2. If that definition includes inclusiveness of the work site - how will that > be identified? > > Any input would be much appreciated. > > Barb Guy > Iowa Department of Education > Transition/Work-Experience Consultant > > > Robert Baer 202 White Hall Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242-0001 (330) 672-0722
