In addition, vocational special needs educators must be aware of the special needs of the older learner associated with the aging process. This article explores the aging process from physical, cognitive, social and psychological perspectives, accommodations for age related changes, retraining mature learners, adaptations of the classroom environment, training technology issues, and successful corporate retraining programs to better prepare vocational educator for the workforce of the new millennium. This paper is based on a presentation made at the American Vocational Association Conference, Denver, CO, December 1995. This article focuses on the strategies used by corporate trainers to effectively teach disabled populations in their corporate workplace. Specifically, training strategies, both methods and training aids, for physically disabled and mentally disabled are investigated.
Corporate trainers have challenges that are similar to the challenges seen by educators.
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