More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Up to 80% of people with disabilities worldwide are unemployed. The successful transition from education to employment is essential for establishing independence among students with disabilities. Research indicates that substantially fewer youth with disabilities are employed with pay after leaving high school than non-disabled youth. This can be due to a number of factors, however lack of pre-requisite work skills and decreased social skills are main indicators of unemployment for youth with disabilities following graduation. Most times, students with disabilities lack the work readiness and social skills required to obtain and maintain gainful employment following graduation. If the aforementioned skills are introduced, taught, and practiced in a realistic work based setting during the high school years, these students are more likely to acquire work following graduation and achieve occupational balance in their lives.
This proposal is the first step in developing a school based coffee and snack business that will focus on teaching work readiness and social skills to high school students with disabilities in order to increase gainful employment post-graduation. Special education students will work side by side with regular education students in this school based business in order to promote and foster inclusion of students with disabilities into the school community. This program is being developed in order to teach and solidify skills necessary for future community employment for high school students with disabilities. The program will include not only special education students, but students without disabilities as well. This will provide increased opportunity for inclusion and promote a more inclusive, positive, and accepting school community.
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Up to 80% of people with disabilities worldwide are unemployed. The successful transition from education to employment is essential for establishing independence among students with disabilities. Research indicates that substantially fewer youth with disabilities are employed with pay after leaving high school than non-disabled youth. This can be due to a number of factors, however lack of pre-requisite work skills and decreased social skills are main indicators of unemployment for youth with disabilities following graduation. Most times, students with disabilities lack the work readiness and social skills required to obtain and maintain gainful employment following graduation. If the aforementioned skills are introduced, taught, and practiced in a realistic work based setting during the high school years, these students are more likely to acquire work following graduation and achieve occupational balance in their lives.
This proposal is the first step in developing a school based coffee and snack business that will focus on teaching work readiness and social skills to high school students with disabilities in order to increase gainful employment post-graduation. Special education students will work side by side with regular education students in this school based business in order to promote and foster inclusion of students with disabilities into the school community. This program is being developed in order to teach and solidify skills necessary for future community employment for high school students with disabilities. The program will include not only special education students, but students without disabilities as well. This will provide increased opportunity for inclusion and promote a more inclusive, positive, and accepting school community.