Supported Employment Outcomes Across a Decade: Is There Evidence of Improvement in the Quality of Implementation?
- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) in Mental Retardation
- Vol. 41 (3) , 188-197
- https://doi.org/10.1352/0047-6765(2003)41<188:seoaad>2.0.co;2
Abstract
There is little question that the strategies used to improve supported employment outcomes, namely higher wages and higher levels of integration, have changed since the mid-1980s. Innovations of natural supports and employer leadership have helped increase the capacity of provider agencies and the business community to include people with disabilities in the workforce. This report is the sixth in a series that focuses on features of natural supports and its relationship to outcomes. Our purpose in this paper is to describe an analysis designed to investigate the features of employment, wage, and integration outcomes of jobs acquired by people with disabilities early in the development of supported employment compared to more recent years.Keywords
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