Concurrent Session:
SRV Informed Considerations for People with Disabilities: Becoming Established in the Valued Social Role of Employee, Part 2

This session explores how SRV informs the nature of instruction and support after a fitting job has been established. It will examine the evolution of understanding about the proper role of external job support people (e.g., job coaches), ways the term “natural supports” is understood, and the importance of how the nature of instruction and support colors the perceived role(s) of the person with a disability. Is this person an employee? Or is the person a human service client? Is the person an object of charity? What are culturally valued analog tradeoffs between image enhancement and competency enhancement and how may these be balanced? How can opportunities for positive imitation and modeling and interpersonal identification be recognized and facilitated? What are considerations for real integration within a workplace? This is a partner session with Part 1, SRV Informed Considerations for People with Disabilities Getting a Good Job.  Part 1 will focus on how SRV theory is helpful in planning and securing fitting, challenging socially valued employment with people who have disabilities.

Presenters

Milton Tyree​

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Milton Tyree’s work is centered on people with disabilities having access to participation in valued aspects of everyday life. A particular area of interest over the last 40 plus years has been the ongoing struggle around people with disabilities having good employment. He is a retired project director of the University of Kentucky’s Human Development Institute where his focus was on supported/open employment leadership development in Kentucky. Most of Milton’s career has been within his home state of Kentucky, but includes additional consulting opportunities in other US states, Canada, Ireland, India, Australia, and New Zealand. His SRV background includes serving as a PASSING team leader, SRV co-presenter, and group leader. He’s written about SRV's implications for employment services and developed an SRV derived supported employment leadership event. His employment efforts have also been strongly influenced by the work of the late Marc Gold, and he’s an associate with Marc Gold & Associates.​