SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah agencies working with people with disabilities need to fine-tune their programs to help more students transition from high school to meaningful jobs or higher education, according to a new report by a Utah-based advocacy group.
The 2014 “Utah Transition Today” report, released last week by the nonprofit Disability Law Center, noted that about one-fifth of special education students were neither working nor taking classes a year after leaving high school. It recommended that agencies personalize their job training and placement efforts, and aim higher than programs that place participants in unpaid, sheltered work settings.
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