Concurrent Session:
SRV Informed Considerations for People with Disabilities: Getting a Good Job, Part 1

This session explores how SRV theory is helpful in planning and securing fitting, challenging socially valued employment with people who have disabilities. It will examine how common life experiences of people with disabilities of working age have collided with their access to the valued social role of employee and ways the application of SRV themes and principles afford access to the employee role. How have negative social roles such as eternal child and object of pity served to undermine the role of contributing employee? How have stereotypical mindsets and expectancies captured people with disabilities in low expectations? How may honoring the culturally valued analogue apply to the identification of fitting jobs? How do role communicators help determine conditions of employment where workers with disabilities will be at their best? How does the conservatism corollary promote understanding a person’s heightened vulnerability to social devaluation and compensating for their devaluation by searching for the most valued options? This is a partner session with Part 2, SRV Informed Considerations for People with Disabilities Becoming Established in the Valued Social Role of Employee.  Part 2 will focus on how SRV informs the nature of instruction and support after a fitting job has been established.