Affiliations: Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education,
1228 Haley Center, Auburn University, AL 36849-5226, USA. Tel.: +1 334 844
5943; E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract: This study examines the relationship between employment obtained
through vocational rehabilitation services (VR) and a number of demographic and
programmatic variables for 599 transition-age VR consumers in a southeastern
state of the United States. The four demographic variables in this study were,
(a) gender, (b) race, (c) disability and (d) county population. The five
programmatic variables included (a) diploma exit status, (b) hours outside the
general education classroom, (c) age at VR application date, (d) grade at VR
application date, and (e) grade difference at application date. Matching case
data from a vocational rehabilitation data base and a special education
post-school student data base were combined to determine the extent to which
these demographic and programmatic variables impacted the rehabilitation
outcome of employment for these consumers. Consistent with previous studies,
gender was significantly related to this outcome, in that males were more
likely to be rehabilitated to employment than females. A second variable, hours
outside the general education classroom, also was found to be significant to
the employment of these young adults. Race, however, was not found to be a
significant predictor of employment for these transition-age VR consumers.
