Supported Employment (or What Passes for It) in America

Issue title: Mental Retardation

Subtitle: Comments on Beyond the Workshop

Article type: Research Article

Authors: West, Michael D. | Kregel, John | Revell, Grant

Affiliations: Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Supported Employment, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Abstract: Beyond the Workshop, a recently issued monograph by the Institute for Community Inclusion from a survey of sampled vocational service agencies, projects numbers of supported employment participants and provider agencies that far exceed those reported by national surveys of state systems by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Supported Employment. This article discusses methodological and definitional issues regarding these discrepancies.

Keywords: Supported employment, Vocational rehabilitation, Community-based services, Integration

DOI: 10.3233/JVR-1994-4409

Journal: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 308-311, 1994