Supported employment as an intervention package: a preliminary analysis of functional variables.
In this two-experiment investigation, the long-term (at least 6 months) employment of 51 moderately mentally retarded clients who were placed into 64 supported employment positions was first evaluated relative to 10 training and posttraining components that comprised a supported employment training package. In Experiment 1, chi-square analyses were used to identify three components that differentiated successful (employed for at least 6 months) from unsuccessful clients. In Experiment 2, 4 successful clients were further evaluated in a nonconcurrent multiple baseline design to determine whether the three variables identified during the group analysis (client advocate, collateral behavior, and follow-up plan) were included in the training packages. These results are discussed in terms of the need to establish better the functional variables of supported employment training programs.
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Division of Developmental Disabilities, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods*