CESP- ASPE UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Benefits Counseling and Benefits analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Services provided to
assist an individual in understanding the options and possibilities in order to make an
informed choice about going to work. These services result in a report that reviews a person's
assets and income to make an informed choice about employment.
Business Proposals (Job Carving) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The process of listing the key
components of jobs and employment needs to develop a written proposal for an employer on
how those needs can be met. A proposal typically includes language identifying job tasks for
increased work efficiencies and the matching of an individual's skills with workplace needs.
This process can result in either job restructuring or job creation.
Career Seeker Portfolio - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A job-hunting tool that developed to
provide employers a complete picture of the job seekers experience, education,
accomplishments, skill sets, and potential.
Employment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Competitive employment is work performed in
the integrated labor market in which the individual is compensated at or above minimum
wage, but not less than the customary wage and benefits paid for the same or similar work
performed by individuals who do not have a disability. "The philosophy that presumes
employability of all people in the community regardless of
disability. Components include:
• Being the first and preferred outcome for working-age youth and adults with disabilities,
including those with complex and significant disabilities, for whom working in the past has
been limited, or has not traditionally occurred,
• Using typical or customized employment techniques to secure membership in the
workforce, where employees with disabilities are included on the payroll of a competitive
business or industry or are self employed business owners,
• Where the assigned work tasks offer at least minimum or prevailing wages and benefits,
• And where typical opportunities exist for integration and interactions with co-workers
without disabilities, with customers, and/or the general public. "
Employment First - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A set of services that are used to introduce,
prepare, monitor, and facilitate individuals with disabilities to seek and maintain
employment. These may also include supports provided to or by an employer.
, Employment Support Professional (ESP) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- "A professional who
assists individuals in obtaining and maintaining integrated employment by meeting the needs
of businesses in the community. There are three levels of certification to become an ESP.
"
Job Developer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- "Professional who matches employers to
employees through pairing targeted business needs with
an individual's transferable skills."
Job Trainer/Job Coach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A professional who provides necessary
supports during the initial employment period to assist the employee to perform their job
tasks to the employer's specifications and then facilitates the transition to natural workplace
supports while reducing his or her role.
Natural Supports - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Support from supervisors and co-workers
occurring in the workplace to assist employees with disabilities to perform their jobs,
including supports already provided by employers for all employees. These natural supports
may be both formal and informal, and include mentoring, supervision (ongoing feedback on
job performance), training (learning a new job skill with a co-worker) and co-workers
socializing with employees with disabilities at breaks or after work.
Person-Centered Planning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Person Centered Planning is an
ongoing problem-solving process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. In
person centered planning, groups of people focus on an individual and that person's vision of
what they would like to do in the future. This "person-centered" team meets to identify
opportunities for the focus person to develop personal relationships, participate in their
community, increase control over their own lives, and develop the skills and abilities needed
to achieve these goals. Person Centered Planning depends on the commitment of a team of
individuals who care about the focus person. These individuals take action to make sure that
the strategies discussed in planning meetings are implemented.
People First Language - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People First Language (PFL) represents
more respectful, accurate ways of communicating. People with disabilities are not their
diagnoses or disabilities; they are people, first.
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Benefits Counseling and Benefits analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Services provided to
assist an individual in understanding the options and possibilities in order to make an
informed choice about going to work. These services result in a report that reviews a person's
assets and income to make an informed choice about employment.
Business Proposals (Job Carving) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The process of listing the key
components of jobs and employment needs to develop a written proposal for an employer on
how those needs can be met. A proposal typically includes language identifying job tasks for
increased work efficiencies and the matching of an individual's skills with workplace needs.
This process can result in either job restructuring or job creation.
Career Seeker Portfolio - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A job-hunting tool that developed to
provide employers a complete picture of the job seekers experience, education,
accomplishments, skill sets, and potential.
Employment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Competitive employment is work performed in
the integrated labor market in which the individual is compensated at or above minimum
wage, but not less than the customary wage and benefits paid for the same or similar work
performed by individuals who do not have a disability. "The philosophy that presumes
employability of all people in the community regardless of
disability. Components include:
• Being the first and preferred outcome for working-age youth and adults with disabilities,
including those with complex and significant disabilities, for whom working in the past has
been limited, or has not traditionally occurred,
• Using typical or customized employment techniques to secure membership in the
workforce, where employees with disabilities are included on the payroll of a competitive
business or industry or are self employed business owners,
• Where the assigned work tasks offer at least minimum or prevailing wages and benefits,
• And where typical opportunities exist for integration and interactions with co-workers
without disabilities, with customers, and/or the general public. "
Employment First - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A set of services that are used to introduce,
prepare, monitor, and facilitate individuals with disabilities to seek and maintain
employment. These may also include supports provided to or by an employer.
, Employment Support Professional (ESP) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- "A professional who
assists individuals in obtaining and maintaining integrated employment by meeting the needs
of businesses in the community. There are three levels of certification to become an ESP.
"
Job Developer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- "Professional who matches employers to
employees through pairing targeted business needs with
an individual's transferable skills."
Job Trainer/Job Coach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A professional who provides necessary
supports during the initial employment period to assist the employee to perform their job
tasks to the employer's specifications and then facilitates the transition to natural workplace
supports while reducing his or her role.
Natural Supports - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Support from supervisors and co-workers
occurring in the workplace to assist employees with disabilities to perform their jobs,
including supports already provided by employers for all employees. These natural supports
may be both formal and informal, and include mentoring, supervision (ongoing feedback on
job performance), training (learning a new job skill with a co-worker) and co-workers
socializing with employees with disabilities at breaks or after work.
Person-Centered Planning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Person Centered Planning is an
ongoing problem-solving process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. In
person centered planning, groups of people focus on an individual and that person's vision of
what they would like to do in the future. This "person-centered" team meets to identify
opportunities for the focus person to develop personal relationships, participate in their
community, increase control over their own lives, and develop the skills and abilities needed
to achieve these goals. Person Centered Planning depends on the commitment of a team of
individuals who care about the focus person. These individuals take action to make sure that
the strategies discussed in planning meetings are implemented.
People First Language - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People First Language (PFL) represents
more respectful, accurate ways of communicating. People with disabilities are not their
diagnoses or disabilities; they are people, first.
