- September 28, 2011
Different Approaches for Finding Employment
Know the different approaches that agencies use to find employment for people with intellectual disabilities. Some agencies conduct ongoing
training until the person with a disability is ready for a job. However, we hear and know that traininga person wiuth a disability until they are "ready" for a job has not been effective - people have been in “training” for many years and they have not graduated to employment. An alternative approach to getting sutainable employment for a person with an intellectual disability is to place the person with a disability in a job carved out based on their preferences and then systematically train for the tasks to achieve a real job for real pay.
This approach, according to the literature, creates more success for
people with disabilities (in Real Work for Real Pay: Inclusive Employment for
People with Disabilities).


