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Article: Improving transition outcomes for persons with specific learning disabilities.
- Article from:
- American Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
- Author:
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Most people would agree with the basic assumption that one goal of education is employment. Yet, the problem of securing gainful employment for the regular high school student, let alone college graduate, is becoming more and more difficult. Likewise, for persons with substantial impediments to employment, such as specific learning disability (SLD), a positive vocational outcome is far from guaranteed, even with appropriate vocational planning.
Since the enactment of Public Law 94-142 in the mid-1970's; SLD has continued to receive increasing attention from both a research and service perspective. More articles and research studies have been published in the last ...