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Employing people with severe disabilities: The challenge remains

✍ Scribed by R. Bryan Kennedy; Nicole K. Harris

Publisher: American Counseling Association
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 417 KB
Volume: 40
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-0787
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2003.tb00858.x

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✦ Synopsis

The authors present an update on the number of individuals with disabilities who are employed at a large federal installation that has been using a recruitment intervention designed to increase the employment rate of individuals with disabilities. The initial review of accessions (i.e., successful recruitments), published in the Journal of Job Placement (R. B. Kennedy, 1996), presented data that spanned 11 years (1984–1994). This article gives recruitment data for another 7 years (1995–2001).

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