OPEN FUTURES: ROLE MODELS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES

Resource #
CD-ROM • OFRM312W

Price $129.95

Program Contents: Single Station WIN/MAC CD-ROM.

System Requirements: Macintosh: Power Mac G3, OS 8.6, 12X CD-ROM, Windows: Pentium 4, Windows 98, Sound Card, 12X CD-ROM

Captioning: N/A

Copyright Date: 2003

Your future is open. Although people with disabilities often face barriers moving into the world of work, many do succeed. Many discover exciting jobs inspired by their interests and abilities.

The Open Futures CD-ROM features Role Models who have a range of educational backgrounds, occupations, and disabilities.

Interviews

Each Role Model answers questions on 6 topics:
• What is your work?
• How did you decide on it?
• What was your path?
• What challenges did you overcome?
• Why is working important to you?
• Any advice for young people?

Job Interests

Browse through Role Model profiles in 6 interest categories:
• Building, inventing and designing
• Helping our communities
• Doing business
• Exploring science, technology and nature
• Communicating through art, music and language
• Keeping people healthy and safe

Role Model Profiles

Each profile includes:
• Video interviews
• Information about job duties, education required, and related jobs
• Links to similar Role Models
• All screen text can be printed for later reference.

Additional Features

View lists of Role Models:
• by Occupation
• by Name
• Or be surprised! You can learn about someone you might not have chosen before by using the Random button.

Training Format

While this CD-ROM is primarily designed as an individualized learning tool to be used on a personal computer, it could readily be hooked into a digital projector and selected Role Model interviews could become part of a presentation to a larger audience.

Access Features

All options available to a mouse-user are accessible by the keyboard. All on-screen text uses large, easily read fonts.

All screen text can be read aloud by your computer's built-in text-to-speech capability. When using the keyboard, all button names are also read aloud. All videos are open captioned.