Career Book 2: 16 Career-readiness Strategies for Parents of Middle School Students With Special Needs

16 Parenting Tips for Helping Your Student Grow in Self-esteem

A solid sense of self-worth now - in middle school - can grow into a lifetime benefit. It can have a far-reaching impact on your youngster's future career in terms of finding fulfillment in the adult world of work.

This self-confidence book shows how to build (and protect) that foundation of positive self-regard which, without support, can easily crack in an age of bullying, negative social media posts, and disregard for diversity.

Career Book 2 is a comprehensive blueprint that empowers parents and counselors to prepare youngsters (ages 11-13) with disabilities to gain meaningful employment as adults. It is based on National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG). In this book, you will discover:

• A checklist for determining when and why your youngster feels successful
• 9 strategies for helping your youngster grow in self-confidence
• 7 strategies for discovering disability's competitive edge in the emerging job market of tomorrow
• How to help your child achieve key career-preparation, age-appropriate NCDG milestones
• How to tap the power of humor and focused practice
• Practical steps to prepare kids with special needs for a seamless school-to-work transition, two or more graduations from now
• The path to gaining trust as a professional counselor among parents of youngsters with special needs

Author Jim Hasse, who has life-long athetoid cerebral palsy, shares the wisdom he gained as a practicing, certified Global Career Development Facilitator for six years and as a 33-year corporate executive, 10 years of which were at the vice president level for a Fortune 500 organization.

Hasse says, "My disabilities, while they have made life tougher for me to live, have also, within certain contexts, become an aggregate advantage for me in gaining meaningful employment in integrated settings. My disability has given me an edge in developing my career. Career Book 2 shows what worked for me in middle school."

Let this unique and informative resource guide you on your journey, as you constructively mentor your son or daughter on the road to eventual career success.

Check out this entire five-book series to help your youngster navigate the various stages of development along the way to fulfilling his or her vocational dreams.

About the Author
Jim Hasse, ABC, GCDF http: //www.linkedin.com/in/jimhasse Jim Hasse established his own Web community business in 1994, after working 29 years for a Fortune 500 company in corporate communications. He was the firm's Vice President of Corporate communication for 10 of those years and, as its Organizational Development Officer, was in charge of developing the organization's strategic planning function and management system. He's the owner of Hasse Communication Counseling, which develops win-win direct mail fundraisers for champions of disability employment. Hasse is a Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF). He has been managing online interactive communities to generate and share career management insight for individuals who have a disability since 1997. Between 1999 and 2009, he was responsible for all the online content of eSight Careers Network, a free service of Lighthouse International (http: //lighthouse.org/), New York City. As eSight's Senior Content Developer, he wrote, assigned and edited more than 1,300 articles about disability employment issues. Between 1997 and 2001, Hasse developed tell-us-your-story.com, a now discontinued web site where people with disabilities shared their personal experience stories and which provided a launching pad for eSight Careers Network. A 1965 honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism, Hasse is an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) by the International Association of Business Communicators, San Francisco, CA. In 1994, he received the Cooperative Spirit Award from the Cooperative Communicators Association (CCA), a national organization for professional communications employed by cooperatives, and the Cooperative Builder Award from the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives, a state-wide trade association. In 1995, he received CCA's most prestigious honor, the H.E. Klinefelter Award for distinguished service in cooperative communications. Hasse is the author of 12 eBooks and paperback books about disability employment plus "Break Out: Finding Freedom When You Don't Quite Fit The Mold" (Quixote Press, 1996) a memoir of 51 short stories about disability awareness. His latest hardcover book is "Perfectly Able: How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities" (AMACOM, 2011), a disability recruitment guidebook for hiring managers which he compiled and edited for Lighthouse International, New York City.