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Martin, James E.; And Others – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1982
Recent efforts have been made to transform traditional sheltered workshop employment to transitional employment training in nonsheltered sites for mentally retarded young adults and adults. Benefits (both monetary and nonmonetary) to the individual, employer, and society are described. Disincentives in the financial system are cited as creating a…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment, Financial Policy, Mental Retardation
Shawnee Hills Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center, Inc., Charleston, WV. – 1983
Descriptions of several programs of the Shawnee Hills Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center, Inc. (Charleston, West Virginia) are presented. Included in this document are: (1) a description of the Shawnee Hills Day Training Center, a cooperative program of Shawnee Hills and several county school boards for severely/profoundly impaired…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advertising, Children, Daily Living Skills
