A Longitudinal Study of Graduates of Special Education. Keynote Presentation [microform] / Eugene Edgar and Phyllis Levine
- Bib ID:
- 5500194
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Edgar, Eugene
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED303004
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987
- 15 p.
- Summary:
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The study examines the employment status and living conditions over a 3-year period of all special education students from 13 school districts who graduated or aged out of these programs in 1984, 1985, and 1986. Data were gathered through a review of school records and telephone interviews with parents. Preliminary results concerning the employment rate 6 months after graduation found ranges from 71% employed for nonhandicapped students to 38% employed for severely handicapped students. From 6 months to 30 months after employment rates increased for the mildly mentally retarded (38% to 52%) and decreased for the behavior disordered (52% to 22%). Although 23% of the nonhandicapped and learning disabled students earned the minimum wage or better at 6 months; the sensory impaired, mildly mentally retarded, and severely handicapped showed a rate of less than 10% earning minimum wage at 6 months. Sensory impaired students had the highest rate of enrollment in postsecondary programs (58%) with other handicapped populations attending at a rate of 30% or less. The percentage of behavior disordered students neither working nor attending postsecondary education program increased from 10 to 82% between 6 and 30 months. Percentages of handicapped students living in independent settings after 6 months ranged from 4% (severely mentally retarded to 18% (learning disabled). (DB)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: In: Chadsey-Rusch, Janis, Ed.; Project Directors' Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings (3rd, Washington, DC, December 10-11, 1987). For complete proceedings, see EC 211 891.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Genre/Form:
- Reports, Evaluative
- Other authors/contributors:
- Levine, Phyllis, author
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1987
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