What Makes the Virtual Job Coach Unique?
The Virtual Job Coach is the only web-based instructional application for job and workplace skills for students and adults with disabilities that approaches curriculum from a pragmatic place, weaving specific career-related social skills throughout the lessons to help users learn and practice them in real-world settings. Its incremental instruction, video modeling, auditory playback, graphic organizers, and role play exercises help people with a variety of learning styles and at diverse functional levels retain the material for greater success.
The Virtual Job Coach can be used in a variety of settings including in high school transition classrooms , in vocational rehabilitation settings, during job clubs, with one-on-one job coaching, and for independent study . It can be used by individuals studying independently, fully-guided with an instructor or coach, or in a blended format.