Postsecondary Outcomes in the 21st Century—A Change is Gonna Come?

In: Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 100-102

Abstract

It's Thursday afternoon in the middle of April. James Sandler is sitting on the couch watching television—again. Yesterday he played video games—again. It wasn't this way last year. That's when he was still in high school. He had a part-time job then in a pet store with assistance from the school's employment specialist. James also was learning to ride the city bus to the gym with his community volleyball team and eating at the local pizzeria with the team after games. During the day, he attended biology, world history, and keyboarding classes with his peers and tended plants in the school greenhouse with the gardening club. All that had changed, however, during the year when he hit 22. Now he was out of school and out of services and one day was pretty much like all the others.