title: The impact of work/study programs on employment of the mentally retarded: some findings from two sources.
abstract: There were two purposes of this study. The primary goal was to examine the employment success of both graduates and early terminators from high school work/study programs for educable retarded young adults (16--21 years old). A second goal was to study the employment levels of these same mentally retarded persons. Data sources included the vocational placement results of students who terminated from work/study programs in 14 Oregon school districts, along with analogous information about work/study terminators from 43 Federally funded work/study projects conducted in the United States between 1955 and 1972. Both the Oregon and the Federal program participants demonstrated that mentally retarded persons who finished their work/study programs had substantially higher employment levels than did similar retarded persons not completing or only partially served by their programs. Also, work/study program completors had comparable employment levels with same age non-white adults in the general population.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States