Help Your High Schooler with a Disability Approach Teen Career Planning with Savvy Book 3 in the Career-Readiness Strategies series shows parents and counselors how to help teens with a disability build one of the most important life skills necessary for a successful career: emotional intelligence.
Here's the good news: emotional intelligence can be learned in high school and it could be a game changer for your teen with special needs as a job seeker in a few short years.
This guide to parenting outlines 15 such strategies. Based on National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG), it's a comprehensive blueprint for empowering parents and counselors who seek to prepare high school students (ages 14-18) with disabilities for gaining meaningful employment as adults.
In this book, you and your high school student will discover:
- How today's definition of "disability" is rapidly becoming obsolete and meaningless
- How to help your high school student grow in self-confidence
- How to discover disability's competitive edge in tomorrow's job market
- How your high school student can become the "exception" instead of the "rule" in tomorrow's competitive job market
- How your high schooler measures up to key career-preparation NCDG milestones
- How to prepare your high school student with special needs for a seamless school-to-work transition
- How to build trust (as a professional counselor or as a parent) with a high school student who has a disability
Author Jim Hasse, who has life-long athetoid cerebral palsy, shares the wisdom he gained as a practicing, certified Global Career Development Facilitator for six years and as a 33-year corporate executive, 10 years of which were at the vice president level for a Fortune 500 organization.
Hasse says, "My disabilities, while they have made life tougher for me to live, have also, within certain contexts, become an aggregate advantage for me in gaining meaningful employment in integrated settings. My disability has given me an edge in developing my career. Career Book 3 shows what worked for me in high school."
Let this unique and informative resource guide you on your journey, as you constructively mentor your high school student along the road to eventual career success.
Check out this entire five-book series to help your youngster navigate the various stages of development along the way to fulfill his or her vocational dreams.
