[Chances and successes of vocational training of disabled youth in occupational and vocational school--findings of the BAR-pilot study "Regional Networks for Vocational Rehabilitation of (Learning-) Disabled Juvenile (REGINE)"].
The pilot study "REGINE" was realized on initiative of the Federal Rehabilitation Council (BAR) to test the opportunities of vocational training of learning-disabled youth under "normal" conditions: That means the young people are trained in firms and regular vocational schools, and -- while doing so -- are supported by educational institutions. The project was finished successfully. The results of the evaluation, realized by the Institute for Empirical Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg were already published in December 2003. They encourage making use of the opportunities of in-firm vocational training of disabled youth more frequently. More than half of the participants of the first REGINE-cohort successfully finished their vocational training. Nearly 40 % were taken over by the firm that provided vocationally trained, and 12.8 % found a job in another company. The second cohort showed even better results: the corresponding rates are 47.1 and 32.4 %. This success speaks in favour of this place of vocational training, particularly considering the difficult job situation. It seems to be possible, that disabled youth are successfully and cost-effectively trained vocationally, if an individual support of both youth and firms can be provided. Prerequisite for this is a conscientious preparation of the vocational training, which may already begin in the last classes of school. "Achilles heel" of the new place of vocational training for disabled youth is the theoretical training in regular vocational schools which usually can not meet the needs of the learning-disabled. These shortcomings had to be compensated by special educational institutions which are not financed by educational administration but by employment agencies (which actually have no jurisdiction over this kind of duties).
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Institut für empirische Soziologie an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (IfeS), 90402 Nürnberg. Hendrik.Fassmann@ifes.uni-erlangen.de
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Maier-Lenz
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Steger
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