Date of Award

7-1975

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Education

First Advisor

John Ivanoff

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the use of behavior modification in a highly specialized program at the Jewish Vocational Service of Milwaukee (JVS). The program is called the Intensive Treatment Program. The workshop in which this program is administered is called the Intensive Treatment Area, known from this point on as ITA. ITA is a part of the Work Adjustment Center which is a division at JVS set up to assist handicapped individuals through their programs to progress to normal living and productive vocational status.

All programs are work orientated, and by providing work experience and related services in a controlled work environment, they emphasize, according to the needs of the client enrolled in the particular program, one or more of the following rehabilitation aspects: emotional, social and work adjustment, and developmental (sheltered) employment.

The services provided to clients consist of evaluation, training, counseling, remedial education, recreation, placement, follow-up, and developmental employment.

Services are available to any Wisconsin resident or out-of-state applicant over the age of 16 who is: (a) trainable 2 or educable retarded; (b) physically or neurologically handicapped; (c) emotionally disturbed, with identifiable behavior problems; or (d) in need of extensive supportive services concurrent with vocational development, regardless of disability. An applicant must be capable of caring for his own personal needs. Those subject to seizures are accepted only on the condition that seizures are controlled to the point that they are not dangerous to the individual.

Comments

A Research Paper Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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