Drapper Career Services and Day Program is a program for adults with significant
disabilities. The day program focuses primarily on recreation and leisure activities and
the career services focuses on job training and placement. The job placements range
from integrated community employment to a sheltered workshop. There are 200 adults
with disabilities serviced in the program and include those with intellectual, and physical
disabilities, and autism. The program employs 75 staff members across the day and job
training components of the program. This includes a director, two assistant directors,
three occupational therapists, 30 job and life coaches, 20 teachers, three speech
therapists, 10 assistants, a BCBA, and four RBT’s, and a psychologist. The program
has been cited for not offering enough life skills acquisition and integrated community
employment opportunities. The state has mandated Drapper Career Services and Day
Program, to increase opportunities for their clients to acquire the necessary knowledge
and skills to become more independent through life skills instruction.
These are the points I think we have to work on
Currently, five clients are in integrated community employment, and 25 clients participate in the
sheltered workshop.
All day program clients are offered the opportunity to participate in a life skills class on Tuesdays, but only 20 clients actually participate on a regular bases.
Program staff report that they utilize client preferences to maintain motivation and manage behaviors, and that the majority of client’s select the recreational or employment program activities.
My part of the project is
data collection on adults – Data collection on adults: on task participation, attendance, time requirement of participation, permanent product. The way we are collecting the data . Time requirements are 15 or 20 minutes and increase. of an on task behavior