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).