Karen Wolffe
Director, Professional Development and CareerConnect®
Areas of Expertise:
- Employment opportunities for people with disabilities
- Career counseling and education
- Rehabilitiation, employment, and transition issues
- Literacy in the workplace
Karen Wolffe manages AFB's professional development work and the CareerConnect® program. In addition, Dr. Wolffe has managed a private practice as a career counselor and consultant in Austin, Texas, since 1992.
Prior to establishing her own practice, she was a faculty member in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas (UT) in Austin. While teaching at UT, Dr. Wolffe directed the Job Readiness Clinic, an applied learning lab for people with disabilities looking for work and university students studying to become rehabilitation counselors or special education teachers. From 1992 to 2002, Dr. Wolffe taught correspondence courses for the Hadley School for the Blind related to transition and employment issues. She also taught a distance education course for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock that focused on job placement.
She is the author of Career Counseling for People with Disabilities: A Practical Guide to Finding Employment, co-author of the Transition Tote System, editor of Skills for Success: A Career Education Handbook for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments, and co-editor of Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments: From Theory to Practice. She also co-authored Transition Issues for Students with Visual Disabilitie and AFB's Focused on...Social Skills series. She has published numerous articles in the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB) and other significant journals based on her work with blind and low vision individuals both in rehabilitation and education settings. Her research and writing interests include the importance of career education, social skills development, transition issues, employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and literacy in the workplace.
Dr. Wolffe received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina in English, a M.Ed. from the University of Texas in special education with an emphasis on students with multiple disabilities, and a Ph.D. in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Texas, Austin, TX.
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