The project addressed the discrepancy between research (documenting the vocational potential of severely handicapped adults) and current services (which include an expanding national program of nonvocational day activity centers) with five coordinated components designed to improve, implement, and evaluate vocational services. The first component,…

Described is the Specialized Training Porgram for severely and profoundly retarded adults, an applied research effort to develop practical habilitation procedures, design programs to implement them, and evaluate the effectiveness of the programs using outcome criteria related to the quality of individual life. Development of the sheltered workshop…