The Power of School-Business Partnerships in Improving Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Howell, Jessiica; Lock, Robin H., ; Brendle, Janna,
- Source
- Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin; 2022, Vol. 88 Issue 5, p14-26, 13p
- Subject
- Employer attitudes
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Developmental disabilities
Intellectual disabilities
Employment
Supported employment
Industrial psychology
- Language
- ISSN
- 00118044
The article focuses on the power of school-business partnerships to improve employment for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Topics discussed include employers with history of hiring individuals with IDD to determine their perceptions of strategies that enhanced employment opportunities; employers completed a checklist that identified their thoughts about desirable qualities in employees and several methods for utilizing a school-business partnership model.