Reviews
: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - February 1, 2009
"A practically-oriented, how-to text…Focuses not on modifying individual deficits and behaviors but on understanding people's individual strengths, emphasizing their accomplishments, and understanding their personal and social resources."
: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation - June 1, 2008
"Truly a complete and detailed step-by-step guide . . . Those who follow the very clear pathway to successful job outcomes described in this publication will make customized employment work."
Courtney McGrew, VAC-Kingwood High School, Kingwood, Texas - February 29, 2008
"The best transition book I have read in a long time . . . Before I even got halfway through the 1st chapter I was calling our department head telling her some of the ideas and asking if we could start implementing them."
Jim Corey, Washington Initiative for Supported Employment, Seattle, Washington - July 23, 2007
"[The authors] have once again produced work which is visionary, realistic, and inspiringly doable . . . They give how-to tools which will help us all unlock the potential of income and business for our people with the most significant disabilities. Their work on resource ownership and development is groundbreaking, and one of the societal impacts of this new book will be a revolution of new, creative, possibility–thinkers."
Corey Smith, Director of Employment Services, VIA of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania - July 23, 2007
"[T]his book is not only their most important contribution to our field but could be the most effective, functional, how to piece that exists to date."
David Mank, Director, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Professor, School of Education, Indiana University - April 12, 2007
"A complete, forward thinking yet realistic guide to job development and customized employment . . . of great use to both experienced and new practitioners."
Pat Rogan, Professor, Indiana University - March 23, 2007
"In-depth description of creative and effective strategies . . . full of clear examples, useful forms, and helpful narratives."