VOCATIONAL AND TRANSITIONAL SERVICES

Vocational and Transitional Services

Vocational and Transitional Services

Transition

All students, if handicapped or not, make many adjustments or transitions. Throughout the course of their schooling, they should learn to cope with dissimilarities in categories, degrees, schools, and programs. Ultimately, they must move from the equitably protected environment of school into the more comparable world of work.

Goldstein (1982) points out that this school-to-work transition is particularly difficult for mildly handicapped persons for three causes: (1) recent technological improvement have spectacularly reduced the number of unskilled and semiskilled jobs that have normally been held in the past by mildly handicapped persons; (2) ...