Access Skills. Vocational Readiness Skills Inventory for Special Needs Students. (Revised Entry Level Skills Inventory.) Missouri LINC.

Overview & Synopsis

This manual is intended to assist special educators and vocational educators in determining the vocational readiness skills of special needs students. The information in this Missouri inventory is based on data provided by the Michigan Occupational Data Analysis System (ODAS) as a part of the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS). The manual includes the following occupational cluster areas: agriculture, business and office, marketing and cooperative education, health occupations, occupational home economics, trade and technical, and employability and study skills. Each cluster area, except employability and study skills, includes a list of program areas by Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code and sample occupations from program areas by Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) code. For each program area, access skills are listed in five areas: math skills; physical demands and working environment; aptitudes; temperament; and vocational skills. The manual is tied to the Missouri Vocational Administrative Management System (VAMS) software package that can provide a printout of the skills for each program area with space to indicate whether a student has mastered the skills. (CML)