PAES®lab set up which includes boxes on shelves, boxes under tables and many other work and home items

ABOUT PAES® Lab

PAES® – Practical Assessment Exploration System – is a transition assessment of employment potential for students with disabilities or other barriers that may prevent them from obtaining employment after they transition out of high school. PAES® is validated to predict employment potential in the future and can help to identify employment skills a student has or may need to develop to succeed in future employment.

The PAES® lab is designed to mimic real workplace settings, with the instructors’ becoming supervisors and students becoming employees. Students will explore jobs in five areas such as business/marketing, service, production, construction/industrial, and computer technology.

Students can benefit from the PAES® lab in a multitude of ways, such as being immersed in an experience that mimics a workplace setting, they are provided with many opportunities to gain soft work skills, and students are able to explore various career paths within the available components & vocational assessment.

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PAES® helps and assesses students in 6 ways:

  1. Build basic, generalizable vocational and life skills that relate to most careers.
  2. Practice skills needed for vocational training, placement and independent living.
  3. Provides the foundation basics for school-to-work transition plans.
  4. Provides students with real knowledge that is relevant to their lives, encourages them to become independent problem solvers, and develop higher order thinking skills.
  5. Explore 5 job tracks with 8-10 job units at 6 levels of difficulty through hands-on experience providing real and meaningful career information and knowledge of what they can do.
  6. Assesses and trains proper work behaviors, eliminating many barriers to successful job placement.

Eligibility

The PAES® lab is available to students as young as 14 years-old and requires 60 – 80 hours to complete a comprehensive assessment, which is customizable to each student.

For more information PAES® lab program, contact Kevin Spriggs, Executive Manager of Habilitation.

Phone: (937) 525-7487 | E-mail:  kspriggs@tacind.com

Background

The Abilities Connection was selected by Quest Inc. to manage and provide instruction for  PAES® lab. Through a partnership with Clark State College, the lab will is hosted at Clark State College’s main campus in Springfield, Ohio.

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