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Preparing Youth with Disabilities for Work: What School Leaders Need to Know

A male youth with Down Syndrome is dressed in business attire and is working in an office.

Preparing Youth with Disabilities for Work: What School Leaders Need to Know

IEL’s Curtis Richards, with Eve Hill and Regina Klein (with Inclusivity Strategic Consulting), published a policy brief intended to inform school leaders about their responsibilities under recent case law to prepare youth with disabilities for work and careers. It can also be helpful for students, families, vocational rehabilitation and developmental disability agency personnel, and community rehabilitation providers. In recent years, the landscape of law and policy regarding transition from school to post-school life for students with disabilities has changed in significant ways. These changes have come not through traditional legal avenues, but through important legal developments that school leaders need to know about to prepare transition-age youth with disabilities for work. READ MORE…