This document discusses training programs to help people with disabilities gain employment. It describes training in social skills to improve self-perception, communication, and handling stress and conflict. Trainees learn skills like computer use, office tasks, gardening, and carpentry. Job application training includes writing CVs, cover letters, and practicing interviews. The goal is to prepare participants for placement in jobs by developing both hard skills and confidence in social interactions. Examples shown include a man working in the storeroom at IKEA and another on another job, demonstrating the success of these integration efforts.

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Breaking the taboo of disability
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3. Integration is only possible if the
human being, with all of his or
her skills and abilities, is the
focus of the process – and if
people can make their own
decisions.

4. Approach “Supported Employment”:
Placement – Qualification
Experience has shown that it is necessary to
prepare participants by honing their social
skills!

5. Learning in the sheltered
workshop
• Personal plan for the future
• Training of social skills
• Professional practical training (computer
skills, office training, gardening, carpentry,
kitchen work, etc.)
• Job application training

6. Learning in the sheltered
workshop
• Personal plan for the future
• Training of social skills
• Professional practical training (computer
skills, office training, gardening, carpentry,
kitchen work, etc.)
• Job application training

7. Training in Social Skills
This training not only covers practicing new
concrete behavior skills, but is also geared
toward developing a new conscious perception
toward one’s own and others’ behavior.

8. Training in Social Skills
Primary Content
• reality-oriented self-perception
• improved perception of oneself and others
• establishing appropriate ability to accept criticism and voice it
• communication techniques
• development of conflict and assertiveness strategies and flexibly using these
• team spirit
• resilience in stressful situations
• emotional stability
• relaxation training
• attention and concentration training

9. Training in Social Skills
Content of the Instruction
• How do I appear to others? What all is a part of this? How do others appear to
me?
• Practicing body language. How close is considered to be comfortable? How do
speech and behavior fit together?
• Exercises in confident and unconfident behavior. What is felt to be aggressive?
• Verbal and non-verbal signals
• When do I have a right to something? When am I dependent upon others’
goodwill? How can I then react? Exercises supporting these everyday life
situations
• Relaxation techniques, roll plays, riddles

10. Training in Social Skills
Implementation in daily situations
• The participants are the “subject matter”
• Trying out various behavioral possibilities
• Realizing realistic situations out of participants’ daily life
• The group establishes their own group rules
• Parameters: punctuality, behavior during instruction, independence,
work scheduling, feedback from the group

11. Mr. H. at work in the storeroom at IKEA
in Fuerth, Germany

12. Cowboys and Indians

13. Breaking the Taboo
Talking about handicaps
• What do I have?
• What type of handicap do I have?
• What sort of aid do I need?
• Where do I need support?
• What is relevant for the work?
• What can I do regardless?
• How does it work best for me?

14. Mr. Z on the job

15. Exercise: Please imagine a specific
person and then describe this
person based on the given criteria:

16. Learning in the sheltered
workshop
• Personal plan for the future
• Training of social skills
• Professional practical training (computer
skills, office training, gardening, carpentry,
kitchen work, etc.)
• Job application training

17. Job Application Training
• curriculum vitae
• cover letter
• “filling in the gaps”
• my skills
• “special application”
• role plays
more

18. Thank you for listening!

19. Thomas Wedel
Integrationskoordinator „arbeit plus“
Boxdorfer Werkstatt BZB gGmbH
Am Spund 4
90427 Nürnberg - Germany
Tel. 0049-911/930990
Fax. 0049-911/93099 99
Mail: wedel@boxdorfer-werkstatt.de