Young adults with disabilities are more likely to be unemployed compared to individuals without a disability due to the limited amount of employment opportunities for these individuals. The effect of this epidemic impacts these young adults' occupational performance and social skills necessary to sustain employment. Young adults with disabilities are isolated from social interaction with peers and not given the same opportunities to build work-related skills required to sustain a career. The purpose of this Doctoral Capstone Experience (DCE) was to create a program that incorporated aspects of work-related skills and social skills with peers in a group setting to maximize effectiveness in the clients' ability to perform desired occupations. Interventions in the group sessions focused on offering adaptive solutions to increase the client's occupational performance, engage in newly developed occupations and roles that required social interaction with peers, and work-related skills. Home décor items were created during each intervention session with the group and required social interaction to complete the desired items. Each item that was created within the group was sold at a boutique that sells items made by individuals with disabilities. Each group member demonstrated an observable increase in sustained attention, willingness to complete the work-related skills, and an increase in,communication with peers during the implementation sessions.

Creator

• Chapman, Megan

Contributors

• Walker, Beth Ann

Publisher

• University of Indianapolis

Language

• en

Identifier

• Chapman.M.OTD.2019.pdf

Keyword

• Occupational Therapy

Date created

• 2019-05

Resource type

• Dissertation

Source

• S13

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/